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by sbrager

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On my home network, I've enabled a shared drive on an enclosed disk. My wife's laptop can map the drive without any problems. However, when she goes to open that share, there aren't any files shown. She can see all the files in another shared enclosed disk.

We're running WinXP Pro with either sp2 or sp3.

Any suggestions?

Thanks;

Stan

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by sidekick

Did you check the share permissions and the security permissions?

by sbrager

sidekick;

My wife's computer is allowed to make changes to the shared drive's files. It's simple file sharing.

by sidekick

I would check the security permissions as well, and the effective permissions while you are at it. You may need to turn off the simple file sharing (folder options -> view -> use simple file sharing (uncheck)) to do this.

The only other thing I can think of is ifyou are running any kind of security software that is blocking it.

by peconet tietokoneet

If you make the folders as "share" they will show up on your shared drive. Or make a public folder and put your files inside and turn the folder on as "share".
Hope all goes well.

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