Can't write to a shared home network drive

[boxofrocks]

I have a shared folder on my home wireless network (Vista 64). I have premissions for that directory set to "Full Control" (for "Everyone")

I still can't write to that drive from another computer on the network. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Also, if I'm on an encrypted wireless router, is there a risk to allow these permissions?

Sorry to be so dumb, but thanks in advance.

[DHaass]

Can you even see the drive from the other computer? Are they both using the same workgroup name and have you checked if not?

[Rson]

Go to Windows & you won't have an issue..... :)

Sharing is easy with "Homegroups"

You can PM me and I'll help.

[boxofrocks]

Originally Posted by DHaass

Can you even see the drive from the other computer? Are they both using the same workgroup name and have you checked if not?

Yes, I can see and read files fine. I just don't have write permission.

[srwatters]

There are always two levels of permissions to consider; the share permission and the disk permission. You can share at the network level, but if the account doesn't have access at the folder/file level, it's a no-go. Remember that account permissions are based on the windows account domain (not as in active directory, but where the account information resides). In this case it would look like machine-name\account-name. If you're using the same account, but have different passwords on the two machines, the access will fail.

On the target machine, go to the highest level folder that you want to grant access and right click, select permissions, and have a look at the access permissions. You will need to grant rights to the account accessing the files across the share. My guess is that you have two different user names trying to access the files and the OS is denying access.

Isn't networking fun!

[boxofrocks]

Originally Posted by srwatters

There are always two levels of permissions to consider; the share permission and the disk permission. You can share at the network level, but if the account doesn't have access at the folder/file level, it's a no-go. Remember that account permissions are based on the windows account domain (not as in active directory, but where the account information resides). In this case it would look like machine-name\account-name. If you're using the same account, but have different passwords on the two machines, the access will fail.

On the target machine, go to the highest level folder that you want to grant access and right click, select permissions, and have a look at the access permissions. You will need to grant rights to the account accessing the files across the share. My guess is that you have two different user names trying to access the files and the OS is denying access.

Isn't networking fun!

Thanks, Scott, but that isn't helping me. I must be doing something else wrong.

I don't have a PW set up on this PC, but it has the sharing priveledges you can see in the window below assigned to this folder. By the way, in Vista, I rght clicked and selected share/change sharing permissions to get to the view below. The one in the original post was properties/sharing tab/advanced sharing/permissions. As you can see, "everyone" has full control.

What else could I be missing?

Thanks!!

[Flea77]

If you are using advanced sharing there are TWO places you need to worry about. Sharing permissions is one, security is another. There should be a security tab as well under the properties of the folder you are sharing.

What Scott was saying is that when your machine tries to connect to another machine that has a share, it sends the username and password to that machine from your machine. If that user account does not exist EXACTLY on both machines, you may get permissions problems. An example:

Bob has two computers, on computer1 he is logged in and working, he browses over to computer 2 and can not gain access to the drive. On computer1 he is logged in as "Bob Smith", he has an account on computer2 as well, but it is "Bob J Smith", so computer2 fails to log in with the "Bob Smith" credentials. This can also happen if the names are identical but the passwords are different (or if one of the machines has a password for that account and another does not).

I would check the security tab first, if that failed I would make sure the machine that is being shared and the computer trying to access it have an identical account.

Allan

[boxofrocks]

interesting. I didn't change anything, but it just started working.

I appreciate the help.