Cannot see shared drive?

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I have a WIn2000 PC running with a USB 2.0 to a external Harddrive on a home
LAN and I set the drive to "Share". But None of the PCs can see the Shared
drive. Even the PC that has the drive attached cant see it when looking at
Network.

The Shared drive is connected and works fine, the win2000 PC itself sees and
can write to the drive over USB. All the USB drivers are working and the
drive shows up in the device manager correctly as a USB device under
harddrives.

I am trying to use this drive as backup location for my home LAN. All other
PCs on LAN are XP. This is the only Win2000 OS.

Any thoughts on how I can get the drive to be network accessible?
Thanks!
 
jtsnow said:
I have a WIn2000 PC running with a USB 2.0 to a external Harddrive on a
home LAN and I set the drive to "Share". But None of the PCs can see the
Shared drive. Even the PC that has the drive attached cant see it when
looking at Network.

The Shared drive is connected and works fine, the win2000 PC itself sees
and can write to the drive over USB. All the USB drivers are working and
the drive shows up in the device manager correctly as a USB device under
harddrives.

I am trying to use this drive as backup location for my home LAN. All
other PCs on LAN are XP. This is the only Win2000 OS.

Any thoughts on how I can get the drive to be network accessible?
Thanks!
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http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1427&page=10

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jtsnow said:
I have a WIn2000 PC running with a USB 2.0 to a external Harddrive on a
home LAN and I set the drive to "Share". But None of the PCs can see the
Shared drive. Even the PC that has the drive attached cant see it when
looking at Network.

The Shared drive is connected and works fine, the win2000 PC itself sees
and can write to the drive over USB. All the USB drivers are working and
the drive shows up in the device manager correctly as a USB device under
harddrives.

I am trying to use this drive as backup location for my home LAN. All
other PCs on LAN are XP. This is the only Win2000 OS.

Any thoughts on how I can get the drive to be network accessible?
Thanks!
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remember you need to map the drive

if the IP address of he machine the drive is on is 192.168.0.1

then on the machine you want to share the drive you must go to run and type

\\192.168.0.1

right click the share, and choose ma network drive

that is if you haen't already done that :)
 
nice..thanks!

Christo said:
remember you need to map the drive

if the IP address of he machine the drive is on is 192.168.0.1

then on the machine you want to share the drive you must go to run and
type

\\192.168.0.1

right click the share, and choose ma network drive

that is if you haen't already done that :)
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