Cant access new hdd on windows 7 network.

[tedstrau]

Hi People,

I recently added a new 500gig hdd to my desktop pc.and while the rest of the shares on the network work fine i cant seem to access this drive. I have an external usb drive connected as well and no problems with that share. If i create new shares they work fine on other folders on c: but when i share e: it shows up no problem but when i try to access it it says windows cant access. you do not have permission to access contact administrator to request access. All machines are logged in as administrator. I have even reformatted and did clean install including deleting and re doing partitions and still same problem. i have also removed shares and re done multiple times.

Thanks in advance. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

[1studlyman]

So you can share folders on different drives (both C: and D:, I assume) and they are accessible over the network? And then it's only on this (E: ) drive that you can't access shared folders?

Do you want to share the entire drive on the network? Go to My Computer and right click on the drive, then click on Sharing. Let me know what you see there.

 

[aford10]

You have to enable sharing, and then also assign the appropriate permissions. Allow the appropriate permissions under the advanced sharing permissions, and then also right click on the drive, click properties, permissions, and allow permissions there.

 

[tedstrau]

So you can share folders on different drives (both C: and D:, I assume) and they are accessible over the network? And then it's only on this (E: ) drive that you can't access shared folders?

Do you want to share the entire drive on the network? Go to My Computer and right click on the drive, then click on Sharing. Let me know what you see there.

I have done what you said all sharing boxes ticked for full control for everyone drive is shared. Yes you were right no problem sharing other drives. Also Merry Christmas to you and your family.

 

[tedstrau]

You have to enable sharing, and then also assign the appropriate permissions. Allow the appropriate permissions under the advanced sharing permissions, and then also right click on the drive, click properties, permissions, and allow permissions there.

all shares are set as per my initial statement. Any other ideas?

 

[1studlyman]

So you can share folders on different drives (both C: and D:, I assume) and they are accessible over the network? And then it's only on this (E: ) drive that you can't access shared folders?

Do you want to share the entire drive on the network? Go to My Computer and right click on the drive, then click on Sharing. Let me know what you see there.

I have done what you said all sharing boxes ticked for full control for everyone drive is shared. Yes you were right no problem sharing other drives. Also Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Ok, then I am wondering if you could simply map the drive on the network. In a computer on the network, go to My Computer and click Map Network Drive. If you can discover your E drive there, then you might be able to map it on the network computer and it would act as if it was a local drive. Give that a shot.

Merry Christmas to you too!

 

[tedstrau]

So you can share folders on different drives (both C: and D:, I assume) and they are accessible over the network? And then it's only on this (E: ) drive that you can't access shared folders?

Do you want to share the entire drive on the network? Go to My Computer and right click on the drive, then click on Sharing. Let me know what you see there.

I have done what you said all sharing boxes ticked for full control for everyone drive is shared. Yes you were right no problem sharing other drives. Also Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Tried that already but it comes back access denied. Further to that i switched the drive out to the other pc and tried to share it back to this one and same problem can access all share accept new drive. Is it possible to have a drive that cant be shared for some reason?

Thanks again

Ok, then I am wondering if you could simply map the drive on the network. In a computer on the network, go to My Computer and click Map Network Drive. If you can discover your E drive there, then you might be able to map it on the network computer and it would act as if it was a local drive. Give that a shot.

Merry Christmas to you too!

 

[aford10]

You have to enable sharing, and then also assign the appropriate permissions. Allow the appropriate permissions under the advanced sharing permissions, and then also right click on the drive, click properties, permissions, and allow permissions there.

all shares are set as per my initial statement. Any other ideas?

Sorry, I should've clarified better. There are 2 places to set the needed permissions. It sounds like you've enabled sharing, and it sounds like 'everyone' has full control on the share.

However, there is one other step that is needed. On the security tab, the user and/or group, needs to have permissions assigned there as well. I'm sorry if you've already done this, but not everyone knows there are share permissions as well as ntfs permissions.

 

[tedstrau]

You have to enable sharing, and then also assign the appropriate permissions. Allow the appropriate permissions under the advanced sharing permissions, and then also right click on the drive, click properties, permissions, and allow permissions there.

all shares are set as per my initial statement. Any other ideas?

Sorry, I should've clarified better. There are 2 places to set the needed permissions. It sounds like you've enabled sharing, and it sounds like 'everyone' has full control on the share.

However, there is one other step that is needed. On the security tab, the user and/or group, needs to have permissions assigned there as well. I'm sorry if you've already done this, but not everyone knows there are share permissions as well as ntfs permissions.

You're a Genius, Thanks fixed it. Just for my own curiosity and learning why did i not have to do that on other shared drives?

 

[aford10]

Those permissions are usually set when you first setup the share, or inherited from a parent (which obviously isn't the case on a root drive). Glad it fixed the problem, cheers.