Sharing out an external Drive

I have an 80G Matrox External Driver connected via the USB.

I use it for Backups on my PC and would like to use it for Backup of my
wife's PC.

I have Shared out the Root of the Drive and am able to see it in the list of
Shares but can not access it.Saying you might not have permission to use
this network resource.

I have given Full control to Everyone in the share.

What else do I need to do to allow this to work

Robin

Robin wrote: To share out a root of a drive in Vista (not recommended because of
security, but in your case it probably doesn't matter):

From Michael Bell - MS

When you share out the root of a drive in Vista, the UI only allows this
through the advanced sharing option. When the advanced sharing option
is used it only sets the share permissions. The actual permissions on a
file share are a combination of Folder and Share permissions. In Vista
the everyone group doesn not have permissions so when you connect
without a password the system you can see the folders but not access
them or possibly connect to the share but fail to open it.

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the
context menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.

If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.

It is also a good idea to create identical user accounts/passwords on
all machines and it isn't an onerous task with home/small networks. You
can set the computers to automatically log onto a particular account for
convenience if you like. The instructions at this link work for both XP
and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

Malke
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