Problem sharing files

24 Apr 2009 7:29 AM

Dan Williams

I have a problem sharing an external usb drive.
Sharing is working on the internal drive fine. I get a permissions error
when trying to connect to the external drive. I have set permissions both in
sharing and security for 2 different users. Neither of which can connect.
The machine is ruuning xp sp3 and is up to date. The external drive is a 1tb
mybook formatted as ntfs.

Thanks
Dan

24 Apr 2009 1:33 PM

Bob Lin (MS-MVP)

Try to take the ownership. this how to may help.
How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows
If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select
the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box. ...
www.howtonetworking.com/Security/takeownership4.htm

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"Dan Williams" <Dan Willi***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a problem sharing an external usb drive.
> Sharing is working on the internal drive fine. I get a permissions error
> when trying to connect to the external drive. I have set permissions both
> in
> sharing and security for 2 different users. Neither of which can connect.
> The machine is ruuning xp sp3 and is up to date. The external drive is a
> 1tb
> mybook formatted as ntfs.
>
> Thanks
> Dan

27 Apr 2009 9:13 AM

Dan Williams

"Bob Lin (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> Try to take the ownership. this how to may help.
> How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows
> If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select
> the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box. ...
> www.howtonetworking.com/Security/takeownership4.htm
>
>

Ok, I tried this unfortuantly I still cannot connect to any shares on this
drive. I tried making a new share once I made these changes. I have set the
user to be the owner of the whole drive.

Thanks
Dan