NOTS3W Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 (edited) I have a network of two computers, one Windows 7 Professional, the other Windows XP Home. I'm trying to share all drives across both machines. Everything works fine except for one of the drives on the Windows 7 machine that is not accessible from the XP computer:Windows 7 Professional, Computer name is MarsThird internal hard drive, SATA, on-board controllerDrive letter M, named Mars MediaDrive shows "people" icon and claims to be sharedDoes not have an "Everyone" entry on Properties ~ Security tab (as the other shared drives on this machine do)However, if I go to Properties ~ Sharing ~ Advanced Sharing ~ Permissions, "Everyone" is listed with Full ControlIt's mapped as M from the XP computer and I can see the drive from the XP computer but when I try to access it, I get an error:M:\ is not accessible.Access is denied.How do I make this drive accessible to everyone (literally) on my home network? Edited June 23, 2011 by NOTS3W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 Add a local user account on the Win7 PC to use for sharing. Share your folder to that user. When you go to view the drive from XP, type in those credentials you set up. Win7 has guest access disabled (not related to Guest account) since it is built off the Server platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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