Sharing Problems

[l)3mon]

I have a two computers, a laptop with Windows 7 and a desktop with Windows XP. On my desktop I have a bunch of movies stored on a drive and there are 3 sub-folders. When I try to take or watch the movies from the harddrive it says access is denied, but if I try to watch the movies that are in the sub-folders it works just fine. I have tried changing the security and permissions to the drive but it still doesn't work. Any reason why this is happening?

 

[pacer]

from what i understand about what you said, you are:

1) using 7 to access the files from xp host
2) files in the root folder is not accessible, whereas all files are accessible in the sub-folders?

eg:
\\192.168.0.2 'xp platf.'
|-1.avi (unable to be accessed)
|-2.avi (unable to be accessed)
|
L___sub1\-- 3.avi (accessible)
L___sub2\-- 4.avi (accessible)
L___sub3\-- 5.avi (accessible)

 

[l)3mon]

Yea, the files that are directly in H:\ are no accessible but files that are in say H:\Videos are.

 

[pacer]

i might suggest that you do a chkdsk scan on your drive. see if it might come up with anything on bad sectors and such. =]

 

[l)3mon]

I ran the chkdsk and found no problems with any of my harddrives.

 

[pacer]

sorry for the late reply.. been busy these 2 days.. ima get back to you soon on this tho.. just so you know i havent abandoned this topic yet =]

 

[pacer]

btw, might i trouble you to provide some shots of your the folder and sharing settings? =] (and the error message too pls.. sorry for the trouble)

 

[Hefemeister]

Check your permission on the root of the drive.

On the properties for the drive, check the security tab and give full access to "everyone"

 

[pacer]

@l)3mon: did that help? its a little different in xp, but the contents should roughly be about the same =]

 

[l)3mon]

Sorry, my computer has been off for a while. I have my permissions set to full for everyone, here is an SS for Security and Permissions.