Problem sharing files

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Dan Williams

I have a problem sharing an external usb drive.
Sharing is working on the internal drive fine. I get a permissions error
when trying to connect to the external drive. I have set permissions both in
sharing and security for 2 different users. Neither of which can connect.
The machine is ruuning xp sp3 and is up to date. The external drive is a 1tb
mybook formatted as ntfs.

Thanks
Dan
 
Bob Lin (MS-MVP) said:
Try to take the ownership. this how to may help.
How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows
If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, select
the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box. ...
www.howtonetworking.com/Security/takeownership4.htm
Click to expand...

Ok, I tried this unfortuantly I still cannot connect to any shares on this
drive. I tried making a new share once I made these changes. I have set the
user to be the owner of the whole drive.

Thanks
Dan
 
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