Vista - Computer Management UI lacking to create, delete, or control shares

I just acquired a new system with Vista Home Premium to add to my home
network (with several other Windows 2K Pro and XP Pro systems).

I wanted to set up some shares on the Vista system, so I went to
Computer Management. I notice that it can list shares and sessions, but
it doesn't provide the options for "New Share", "Properties", or "Stop
Sharing". (I note that my Vista Business system at work does have those
options.)

So how is one to do this with Vista Home Premium? I note that the
command line "net share" can be used to create and remove shares, but I
don't know how to set share properties with net share.

From a search I did discover that the Create a Shared Folder Wizard can
be opened by running SHRPUBW.EXE -- this is good for creation of shares,
but doesn't help with modifications of removals.

Bob

Hi Bob, if you right-click the folder and click Share, you should see a
wizard page with the options to "Change sharing permissions" or "Stop
sharing."

Thanks,
Gloria

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Gloria Boyer
Windows User Assistance team
Microsoft Corporation

So why does the Computer Management console continue to show the Shared
Folders tool, but the capability to do anything with it is missing?

Bob

Gloria Boyer [MSFT] wrote:
> Hi Bob, if you right-click the folder and click Share, you should see a
> wizard page with the options to "Change sharing permissions" or "Stop
> sharing."
>
> Thanks,
> Gloria
>

user@domain.invalid wrote:
> I just acquired a new system with Vista Home Premium to add to my home
> network (with several other Windows 2K Pro and XP Pro systems).
>
> I wanted to set up some shares on the Vista system, so I went to
> Computer Management. I notice that it can list shares and sessions,
> but it doesn't provide the options for "New Share", "Properties", or
> "Stop Sharing". (I note that my Vista Business system at work does
> have those options.)
>
> So how is one to do this with Vista Home Premium? I note that the
> command line "net share" can be used to create and remove shares, but
> I don't know how to set share properties with net share.


net share <sharename> /grant:user, READ : CHANGE : FULL

i.e. net share MyShare=C:\MyShare /grant:everyone, Read

hth

Hi Bob, Gloria and everyone else,

You should restart your computer. Probably, you disabled "Simple file sharing" during this session. You will not see some changes in Windows untill you restart your PC.
I had this problem on XP BTW, but I am guessing that it's not different on Vista or Win7.

Good luck,
Raki