Share removeable drive problem

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Pivert

Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea !

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a backup
unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC !!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again re-instate
the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are these data
stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is allways
auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil
 
Pivert said:
Hi all,

already posted several times, no answer yet. Hope someone has an idea !

I have a big external firewire drive which I bought to serve as a backup
unit for my home LAN ( 3 PCs)
Now the problem is that the shares to my son's and daughter's reserved
partitions ( full access granted) disappear as soon as I reboot my PC !!

So each time they want to access the drive I have to once again re-instate
the shared status !

Using XP-SP1a and "simple file sharing"

Any suggestion ?
- would like to preserve the shared status : possible ? where are these data
stored in registry ( coul import when booting ?)
- any way to re-share with some scripting at each boot ? ( drive is allways
auto-started when I boot PC)

Hope someone gets a good idea to help !

Phil
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For starters, I'd turn off simple file sharing. At the workstations can
you map a drive letter to the device and tell it to restore the
connection each time Windows starts?

An alternative solution is LAN drive, I believe Iomega has a 160 GB
drive for around $150 US or less. Built in support for MS, Unix and Mac
networking. Easy web-based configuration if you want to change security
settings.

Steve
 
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