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Windows Sharing Argh!!!!
Ok, Windows 7 32 bit. I had a small internal hd in a pc as third drive. Undid the share it was on which worked fine and then swapped the disk out for a slightly larger one. Now trying to reset the share to find "Simple Sharing" seems to now be changed to Advanced Sharing with no other option. So I proceed anyway, set entire drive to be shared and add "Everyone" to permissions list. Trying to access from a 2nd pc gives the bs of "permissions denied crap" ARGH!!! I cannot seem to turn back on Simple File Sharing and no passwords. Advanced sharing doesn't seem to change when "No password" specified nor does naything change when folder option of "Simple file ..." changed. Thing is all the other shares on same pc still work fine. Wtf, simple procedure becomes an all night hoorrer story so easily. |
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Ok, Windows 7 32 bit. I had a small internal hd in a pc as third drive. Undid the share it was on which worked fine and then swapped the disk out for a slightly larger one. Now trying to reset the share to find "Simple Sharing" seems to now be changed to Advanced Sharing with no other option. So I proceed anyway, set entire drive to be shared and add "Everyone" to permissions list. Trying to access from a 2nd pc gives the bs of "permissions denied crap" ARGH!!! I cannot seem to turn back on Simple File Sharing and no passwords. Advanced sharing doesn't seem to change when "No password" specified nor does naything change when folder option of "Simple file ..." changed. Thing is all the other shares on same pc still work fine. Wtf, simple procedure becomes an all night hoorrer story so easily. Glad to hear you resolved it. Were you using XP before ? Windows 7 does not have a 'Simple Sharing' check box option. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On Fri, 1 May 2015 03:30:23 -0300, pjp
wrote: In article , says... Windows 7 does not have a 'Simple Sharing' check box option. This was a Win7 box but it is on a network with a varied mix of XP, Vista and Win7. ... Why it's a "Workgroup" and I sure wish MS would stop changing how to access the various features every version. I think a lot of people wish MS would stop moving things around. Does anyone even use "Homegroup"? Seems to me most people would have prior experience with a network if the need is there (for me it goes back pre Win 3.1/WFW, e.g. Lantastic for DOS) if/when they wanted to use one so they'd go with the old "tried and trusted". Homegroups work fine when all of the network nodes support them, which wouldn't be the case for you. Personally, I use neither Workgroups nor Homegroups. I simply access networked systems by their IP address. For me, it's so much easier that way. -- Char Jackson |
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On 5/1/15 12:30 AM, pjp wrote:
snip Does anyone even use "Homegroup"? Seems to me most people would have prior experience with a network if the need is there (for me it goes back pre Win 3.1/WFW, e.g. Lantastic for DOS) if/when they wanted to use one so they'd go with the old "tried and trusted". I'm sure there's a lot of people that use Homegroup, those folks just do not haunt newsgroups and the Usenet. When my inlaws first had 2 Win7 'puters, I networked them using Homegroup. I'd never even used Win7 at the time. I followed the instructions, and it was quick and easy. So when you have users who are not very computer literate in knowing just what can be done with computers, it's an easy way to accomplish what you want without needing all the technical knowledge. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 36.0.4 Thunderbird 31.5 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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