Second Hard Drive added but non administrator users can't write to it?

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My home PC is running XP pro. I have it set up with my admin account
and a regular user account (non admin) for the rest of the family. I
added a second hard drive for general use. I was logged in via my
admin account when I added and formatted the drive etc. The new drive
works fine for me via the admin account.

The problem is that regular non-admin users cannot write to it.

How do I enable this new drive to be shared with all users on the local
machine but not shared over the network or the Internet.

thanks

Mark
 
Go into Sharing and Security and give the other users rights to the new hard
drive.

I had to do the same for a new hard drive I installed a while back.
 
DownWithBugs said:
Go into Sharing and Security and give the other users rights to the new hard
drive.

I had to do the same for a new hard drive I installed a while back.
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Thanks for the reply but it did not work.

I tried this on my PC at work and I see what you mean, I saw the window
that comes up that allows you to assign rights to each user.

However, when I tried it on my home machine (also running XP ppro) I
did not get the same window, instead I got a window that said its a bad
to share the root of a drive but if I want to do it anyway click here,
and that window tells about sharing FOLDERS by dragging them in to the
shard documents folder. I tried to drag the DRIVE into the shared
documents folder which it what it seems to be saying but just a
shortcut to the drive appeared in the shared documents folder and the
drive could still not be writen to by the non admin account.

What am i missing?

Mark
 
Steven said:
You need to give users the proper folder/NTFS permissions for the drive. In
your case make sure that they have at least read/list/write. The link below
explains how to do this in more detail. In XP Pro you need to disable simple
file sharing in order to see the "security" tab in a folder's properties.
The folder will not be available to network users unless you share the
folder.

Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418
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OK I wanted to keep "simple permissions" on this machine...so I settled
on this method...I created a FOLDER on the drive and the FOLDER can be
shared....

I'm just using it for an area for scratch storage so that works fine...

thanks to all for the replies.

Mark
 
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