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02-21-2008
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| | Sharing grayed out Private network. In network and sharing center I have network discovery, file sharing, print sharing, public sharing and printer sharing all turned on. When I try to share a disk the sharing option is grayed out same with the printer. What am I overlooking? |
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02-21-2008
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Re: Sharing grayed out you cant share the root drive because its shared by default...In the address bar type \\compnamehere\C$ to access the root drive just chnage the c to what hard-drive ou want to access, printers are shared by default aswell same procedure \\compnamehere\\printers$ |
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02-21-2008
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Re: Sharing grayed out correction for printers \\compnamehere\\printers without the $ but for hard drives you still need the $ \\compname\\c$ or \\compname\d$ |
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02-21-2008
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| | Re: Sharing grayed out Hi For security reason sharing of whole Drive is blocked. You can share public folders, or create new folders, and establish for them your own rules. Jack (MVP-Networking). "Lawton" <Lawton@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:80831684-535F-4355-AE6D-AD1490FF8E63@xxxxxx Quote: > Private network. In network and sharing center I have network discovery, > file > sharing, print sharing, public sharing and printer sharing all turned on. > When I try to share a disk the sharing option is grayed out same with the > printer. What am I overlooking? |
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02-21-2008
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| Windows Vista™ Ultimate | Re: Sharing grayed out The whole drive is shared on every vista and XP machine by default and can be accessed allready without you changing anything. |
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11-24-2008
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| vista ultimate 32b | Re: Sharing grayed out i havent seemed to figure it out i have vista ultimate 32 bit and i used to be able to share any folder on the hd now it is some how greyed out i liked the fact i could play a game from one computer on another now i cannot what happend??? could a program such as spybot adware or ccleaner be the cause i dont seem to understand as the advanced sharing tab below is able to be clicked my problems all seem to relate to a software curruption of some sort on the pc when im on the 2nd machine with xp it says |
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11-25-2008
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| | Re: Sharing grayed out These search results may help. a.. Why the Share is grayed out on Vista A: If you disable File haring Wizard on the Vista, the Share would be grayed out . Please refer to this how to for more information: How to disable/enable ... www.chicagotech.net/vista/sharing2.htm a.. grayed out for a root drive in Vista. It is recommended to share a >> folder ... . On my Vista Laptop, the Share is grayed out because of the File .... http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...8037f203c0b2e0 -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "jg211" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:e1ee1ed19a8eebf3b7cca97ffd78adba@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > i havent seemed to figure it out i have vista ultimate 32 bit and i used > to be able to share any folder on the hd now it is some how greyed out i > liked the fact i could play a game from one computer on another now i > cannot what happend??? could a program such as spybot adware or ccleaner > be the cause i dont seem to understand as the advanced sharing tab below > is able to be clicked my problems all seem to relate to a software > curruption of some sort on the pc when im on the 2nd machine with xp it > says > > > -- > jg211 |
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