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Originally Posted by louie55
I am trying to share the whole C Drive between 2 Windows XP computers. There are 2 different locations that I am trying to do this at and both give the same result. At one location, I am trying to share the C: drive of an XP Home computer to an XP Pro Computer. At the other location, they are both XP Pro.
What is happening is, I can see the share and map a network drive to it no problem. The problem is, it will only allow access to certain folders. If I try to access the WINDOWS directory or the Program Files directory or any user's documents and settings besides "Default User", I get an "Access Denied" Message. On the XP Pro machine that I am sharing the drive out of, I have given everyone access, but still does the same thing. On the XP Home machine that I am sharing the C: drive out on, it doesn't have an option to change the permissions.
What can I do to be able to see ALL OF THE CONTENTS OF EVERY FOLDER ON THE C: DRIVE. Please help.
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First, if you can boot from either of 2 hard drives on your computer, you can set the folder sharing on thr one hard drive that is not the boot drive, then reboot from the second hard drive and set the sharing on the folders on the first drive. This sharing will thenbe set for whichever drive you boot from.
Second) If you do not have 2 drives.
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While it can't be a domain client and XP Home doesn't support group policies or other 'advanced' domain features, you can connect to domain resources such as shared directories. It's not that difficult and most everyone who can follow simple instructions can do it.
1) Find the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) on the server that you want to access. This can be found by right-clicking the My Computer icon on the desktop and selecting properties. It will be found to the right of 'Full computer name:'. On the next line, is the Domain:. Write both these names down. Examples:
Full computer name: \\brainx-server.domain.brainx.com
Domain: domain.brainx.com
2) On your XP Home system, open the My Computer icon (if it's on your desktop, otherwise, right-click on the Start button and select explore).
3) From the Tools menu, select 'Map Network Drive...'
4) Select a drive letter to share (Z:, X:, etc).
5) In the folder box type two backslashes (\\) and then the Fully Qualified Domain Name from step 1, then a backslash (\) and the shared folder you want to connect to. Example:
\\brainx-server.domain.brainx.com\shared
6) Below the drive/folder settings is a link named: "Connect using a different user name.". Click this link and a dialog will appear asking for the user name and password to use when connecting to the folder.
7) In the 'User name:' field, enter a domain username that has access rights to the folder you want to access. Add it in the format username@domain. Where domain is the domain listed in step 1. Example:
bob@domain.brainx.com
8) In the 'Password:' field, enter the password for the domain user account specified in step 7.
9) Click OK.
10) Make sure the 'Reconnect at logon' check box is checked so you won't have to enter the user credentials each time.
You're done! The specified network share should open and be associated with the drive letter you setup.
While you can access shared network folders in a domain, if different credentials are required for different folders, you are out of luck. That's because you can only connect with a single set of credentials at a time with XP Home. So if you needed info from domain/xyz directory that has access rights set for one user and domain/qrs that has a different user you will only be able to access one at a time. In that case you will have to disconnect the shared drive before trying to connect to the other one with a different user name.
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