Sharing drives in windows 7/XP

[jroncalli]

I have a sharing question. I have one computer with windows 7 and another computer on my network running windows xp. I have them setup to share files and printers and from the windows 7 computer I can access the files in the shared docs folder just fine. However I also have a usb hard drive hooked up to that computer with pictures on it I would like to be able to access from the windows 7 computer. I set the drive up to share from the xp computer that its plugged into, and when i am on my windows 7 pc I can see the drive but when I try to open it it says i do not have access to use this drive. Any help would be appreciated. Oh, I am also able to use the printers hooked up to my windows 7 pc from the xp machine just fine.

 

[JackMDS]

Make sure that the USB Drive gets always the same drive letter.

One way to do so is to assign a high letter (like N: ).

Then set the sharing and the permissions for the Drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;304040

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Make sure that the USB Drive gets always the same drive letter.

One way to do so is to assign a high letter (like N: ).

Then set the sharing and the permissions for the Drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/d...x?scid=kb;en-us;304040

:thumbsup: Easy.