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by lisun88

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hi all,

yesh.started up a network.

i have only problems at my colleague's side workstation.

does not seem to be able to find the drive and mapped it.

thanks for all the help.they are helpful to me.

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by rob miners

Mapping a network drive

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/mapdrive.mspx

Sharing files

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/share.mspx

Using and maintaining your network

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/default.mspx

Troubleshooting network connection problems

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/maintain/troubleshoot.mspx

I have noticed that when I remove my Shared USB Hard Drive and restart the PC the Share is lost and it has to be Shared again. This is the way that I would setup the Drive to be Shared.

Open explorer and create a new folder for sharing. Name it something like USBHD. Insert the USB Drive. Open Computer Management, Disk Management and right click on the removable disk. Select Change Drive Letter and Paths. Here you can select a Drive Letter of choice by clicking Change, Select Add. Navigate to the Shared folder and Select it and press OK. From now on when you insert the Memory stick you will have a copy of the contents in the new share. The drive letter will not change. Map the new share from the other PC's and you should be in business.

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by lisun88

hi,
thank you so much for helping in my problem.
i had managed to map the network drive on my collegues' side.

the other workstation i was actually testing on was not in the same ip address range with my workstation.

thank you so much.

now i just want my files to be in the secure manner.

eg: i do wan ppl to log in to access the contents in the hard drive.is it possible?

thank you!

by rob miners

create a single User Account and setup access on the Share with a known password, or create individual User Accounts on the PC and they can access it from the other PC's.

File and Folder Permissions

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727008.aspx

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