Sharing An Entire Drive

[Bill Bradshaw]

I am sharing files and printers between Windows 7 Pro on a laptop and WinXP
Pro SP3 on a desktop. I have no problem sharing the folders on the Windows
7 computer with the WinXP one but I can not seem to share an entire drive.
Is it possible to share the entire drive (partition) that is on the Windows
7 computer with WinXP computer?
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<Bill>

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

 

[Chris Hallsworth]

I don't think this can be done as XP doesn't understand the ways in
which Windows 7 handles permissions. Just my views on tests I have done.

On 07/02/2010 064, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
> I am sharing files and printers between Windows 7 Pro on a laptop and WinXP
> Pro SP3 on a desktop. I have no problem sharing the folders on the Windows
> 7 computer with the WinXP one but I can not seem to share an entire drive.
> Is it possible to share the entire drive (partition) that is on the Windows
> 7 computer with WinXP computer?

 

[Andrew]

"Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:hkm239$iiq$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> I don't think this can be done as XP doesn't understand the ways in which
> Windows 7 handles permissions. Just my views on tests I have done.
>

Haven't tried it but it should work if you assign it out to the correct user
with minimally READ access and use [driveletter]$ to get to it.

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Andrew

 

[Bill Bradshaw]

My experience is anytime I select a drive the share button is grayed out. I
guess I could create a master subdirectory under the drive letter and then
copy all of the drive subdirectories to it and then share the top
subdirectory . Pretty dumb idea. I want full access and my experiece is
I can not get it. Is there any limit on the number of files you can have if
I decide to try this?
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<Bill>

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

Andrew wrote:
> "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:hkm239$iiq$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>> I don't think this can be done as XP doesn't understand the ways in
>> which Windows 7 handles permissions. Just my views on tests I have
>> done.
>
> Haven't tried it but it should work if you assign it out to the
> correct user with minimally READ access and use [driveletter]$ to get
> to it.

 

[Andrew]

"Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> wrote in message
news:7t8jqeFp16U1@mid.individual.net...
> My experience is anytime I select a drive the share button is grayed out.
> I guess I could create a master subdirectory under the drive letter and
> then copy all of the drive subdirectories to it and then share the top
> subdirectory . Pretty dumb idea. I want full access and my experiece
> is I can not get it. Is there any limit on the number of files you can
> have if I decide to try this?

Try the advanced sharing button on the Drive Properties>Sharing Tab.
That should let you do it. Dunno the answer to your other question
regarding a top level dir.


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Andrew

 

[Bill Bradshaw]

This was doable. The following address explains how:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread74666.html

The last message can be important. I was just interested in networking my e
partition.
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<Bill>

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

Andrew wrote:
> "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@gci.net> wrote in message
> news:7t8jqeFp16U1@mid.individual.net...
>> My experience is anytime I select a drive the share button is grayed
>> out. I guess I could create a master subdirectory under the drive
>> letter and then copy all of the drive subdirectories to it and then
>> share the top subdirectory . Pretty dumb idea. I want full
>> access and my experiece is I can not get it. Is there any limit on
>> the number of files you can have if I decide to try this?
>
> Try the advanced sharing button on the Drive Properties>Sharing Tab.
> That should let you do it. Dunno the answer to your other question
> regarding a top level dir.