Home network, can't access one drive - 1TB size

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Cyril N. Alberga

I have three computers, all running XP Pro, on which I am trying to share all
the drives. This works for all but one of the drives, a newly installed 1 TByte
internal drive. When I attempt to access it from either of the other computers
I get ".. is not accessible. You might not have permission..."

When I look at the permissions I can't find any difference between that drive
and the other two on the same machine.

Is there a problem with sharing a drive of that size? If not, where else can I
look for the trouble?

Thank for any suggestions.
 
Cyril N. Alberga said:
I have three computers, all running XP Pro, on which I am trying to share all
the drives. This works for all but one of the drives, a newly installed 1 TByte
internal drive. When I attempt to access it from either of the other computers
I get ".. is not accessible. You might not have permission..."

When I look at the permissions I can't find any difference between that drive
and the other two on the same machine.

Is there a problem with sharing a drive of that size? If not, where else can I
look for the trouble?

Thank for any suggestions.
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The drive size should make no difference...

You do have file sharing enabled...don't you?
 
Try run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click the hd,actions,all,select "make
active"...If it doesnt show in msc,run,type:cmd In cmd type:diskmgmt.msc
In msc,type:list disk type:list volume type:HELP for all cmds,exit when
thru...
 
Andrew E. said:
Try run,type:diskmgmt.msc In msc,L.click the hd,actions,all,select "make
active"...If it doesnt show in msc,run,type:cmd In cmd type:diskmgmt.msc
In msc,type:list disk type:list volume type:HELP for all cmds,exit when
thru...
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That advice is useless...
an active partition is necessary to make a drive bootable
but has nothing to do with networking!
 
So far, so bad. As stated in another post and reply, "Active" doesn't to
anything, and yes, I do have sharing set on. There are three hard drives in the
machine in question, two of which are accessible from the other machines, but
one is not. I can't see any differences in the "Sharing" and "Security" tabs.
I'm not sure what you are referring to as NTFS permissions. If it is the
permissions on the Security tab, then yes, they are set.

I'm about to create a "Test" user -- one with no spaces or special characters in
the user name, nor with a "Full name", to see if there is some subtle error in
the permissions. (The normal user name as both spaces and an "&" in it, and for
a while I was having problems with another user name whose "Full name" match the
true name of the usual user. It took me a while to figure out that some place
the true name is displayed, and others the "Full name", with no indication of
which is which!)

Any other thoughts are welcome, and I'll report back on my "Test" user name.

Cyril
 
I seem to have solved the network problem.

I created a new user id on the problem machine and the newer one. I gave
appropriate permissions and the problem disk now became accessible. So I went
back and deleted the test user and saw the message warning about "unique ids",
and the fact that a new user with the same name would not have permissions
granted to the to-be-deleted user name.

Now, in various tests, trying to get things working, I had changed the username
a couple of times. It dawned on me that the seeming correct user name in the
permissions of the problem disk might be that of one of the previous trials.
So, I went in and removed the user (whose name LOOKED right) from the
permissions of the disk and then set the permissions again, with the look-alike
(and correct) user.

That did it. I think this was all fall out from the true user name of one user
being the same as the "full user name" of another, and not knowing which was
being displayed when.

Thanks for the various suggestions.

Cyril
 
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