Mark Fineman
December 6th 03, 10:31 AM
I want to provide shared access to the files in an NTFS partition
on a mountable disk drive.
I am running a Windows XP Professional that was factory installed.
When I re-connect my USB 2.0 disk with an NTFS partition the files
aren't shared across the network even though I specified sharing
the first time I mounted the drive.
The first time I mounted the disk I used Properties, tab Sharing
and set the "Network Sharing and Security" to
"Share this folder on the network".
When I did this I got a popup window titled
"Setting folder Permissions..."
and there was a delay during which lot of disk activity took place.
When I rebooted the system the partitiion and connected the
disk drive the partition was no longer shared.
The external disk has a single NTFS partition occupying the
entire disk, is not bootable, doesn't have an operating
system on it. None of the files on the drive are encrypted or
password protected. The disk started out as a clone of a
disk that is shared on another Windows XP Professional system.
How can I get the operating system to remember the sharing
attibutes (that it is shareable using a particular name,
and network users are allowed to change my files)? Note that
I file protections are changed even if write access is not
being granted, but I want everyone to have write access.
I just want Windows to leave the protections alone and let
the individual protections, access lists, etc. that are on
the disk be used by network users. (I'll worry about how
access control lists should verify users at a latter time.)
on a mountable disk drive.
I am running a Windows XP Professional that was factory installed.
When I re-connect my USB 2.0 disk with an NTFS partition the files
aren't shared across the network even though I specified sharing
the first time I mounted the drive.
The first time I mounted the disk I used Properties, tab Sharing
and set the "Network Sharing and Security" to
"Share this folder on the network".
When I did this I got a popup window titled
"Setting folder Permissions..."
and there was a delay during which lot of disk activity took place.
When I rebooted the system the partitiion and connected the
disk drive the partition was no longer shared.
The external disk has a single NTFS partition occupying the
entire disk, is not bootable, doesn't have an operating
system on it. None of the files on the drive are encrypted or
password protected. The disk started out as a clone of a
disk that is shared on another Windows XP Professional system.
How can I get the operating system to remember the sharing
attibutes (that it is shareable using a particular name,
and network users are allowed to change my files)? Note that
I file protections are changed even if write access is not
being granted, but I want everyone to have write access.
I just want Windows to leave the protections alone and let
the individual protections, access lists, etc. that are on
the disk be used by network users. (I'll worry about how
access control lists should verify users at a latter time.)