multiple users on a network drive in windows

[Dannypje]

Hi,

so I finally managed to set up a USB hard disk behind my Sitecom X6N900 router on one of its USB ports. The router serves as a samba server.

I now have that disk mapped as network drive Z on my fixed computer, and I did the same on my daughters laptop.

When my daughter is running her backup on the laptop, and when I access the disk on my fixed PC at the same time, the backup crashes, and also the fixed PC loses the Z-drive (says the Z is pointing to a location that is no longer present).

Is this 'normal' behaviour ? Or is there anything I can do to prevent this ?

I tried to 'share' the Z drive, but that option is not available when I right click the Z-drive or any of the folders in it. I already found on the internet that it is not possible (and probably not needed) to share network installed folders.

The fixed PC is running Vista Home, the laptop is running windows 7.

Does anyone know if there is anything I can do, or do I just need to live with the fact that simultaneous access is not possible ? (that would be a drag because both machines use a scheduled task for the backup, which starts asap if it missed its schedule), so there is a chance that at any given time, both PCs will try to access the Z-drive.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[goodguy713]

try creating a disk partition and map both as a different drive assign half for her and half for you.. alternatively you could be pulling more bandwidth that the usb 2.0 port is capable of handling. alternatively you could get or add another drive to the mix.