Hi I have a network setup with my desktop and laptop, both running
windows xp.
The laptop sees the network I can get to most of my shared folders. But
there is one I can't. I have a whole drive setup as a share, within
this drive there is a folder named "downloads" and for some reason I
get a "...is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this
network resource....access is denied.." error.
The only way I can get it to work is to share this folder
manually(right click on the folder and set it to share). But then even
though I can now access this folder I can't get to a folder named
"installed" within "downloads" unless I set a manual share to that
also.
I would just rather have the drive shared and all it's folders so I
don't get a long list of individually shared folders in my network
places.
Why aren't all my folders accessible within the "L" drive?
Is there something to be reset somewhere?
I did try to unshare and share the drive.
I am using simple file sharing. But it isn't as simple as Microsoft
made it to be...lol

Yeah MS really buggered file sharing when moving from 2000 to xp. In
2000 you just adjust "sharing permissions" and "file permissions" by
right clicking the folder and choosing properties. I tried to start
looking for how to help you and got irritated within 5 mins. Of course
it could be because I'm running on only 2 hours sleep.

x1134x

The bottom line is that you have an account permissions conflict on the
share. I had that account permissions conflict and *access denied* on the
share when using an account that had Admin full access rights on the share
but the Everyone Group account on the share only had read only rights on
and that superseded all other rights on the share. I got rid of the
Everyone Group account on the share and the problem went away.

Duane

Ok I got it to work by doing the following.

Open my computer
Turn off simple file sharing
Right click on drive in question go to properties security, advanced,
checked " replace permission entries on all child objects with entries
shown here that apply to child objects"
click apply
turn simple file sharing back on.
It works all subfolders are now accessible without having to share them
one by one.

erables40@gmail.com wrote in news:1132670399.816704.174350
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Did you share the whole drive here or what? You should only be sharing
the folder in question and not the entire drive if you have done that.

Duane

I am sharing the whole drive.
Now every folder in that drive is accessible. just like I wanted

Basically the way I see it, is if you share a folder then unshare it
then decide to share the whole drive instead, the folders that were
shared then unshared won't be accessible unless you share each folder
individually or do like I did above, then all folders are again
accessible. I guess this resets everything.

erables40@gmail.com wrote in news:1132698621.685319.237820
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

You got a lot of trust in people to do the right thing, which you should
not have with them.

Take note on the Everyone Group account in general and Authenticated user
group on shares. You should only be allowing access to one or two share
folders at most and NOT the entire HDD.

You should think a little bit on *security* maybe -- just a little bit.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articl...ychecklist.htm

Duane

Maybe my explanation wasn't well said. I have 6 partitions on two hard
drives. The one I am doing a complete share on is a partition on my
second harddrive. This drive only contains downloaded stuff from the
internet and some temp folders, therefore anything on this drive is
pretty much non personal. Also the only other computer sharing this
drive is my laptop.
But thanks anyways for the heads up on the security issue. I will
certainly never share my whole C: drive or my drive with all my
personal private info on.