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by wroming

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If you have a clean install of Windows NT and have already installed the sp5 (cant install sp6a because of other software issues and still can not share the drive what is the problem and how do you fix it?

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by pineapplebob

Are you trying to share the entire drive? If so, why? You should only be sharing specific folders or directories. Also, by default NT shares all drives as C$, D$, etc. These are hidden in the network neighborhood, yer connectable by any domain adminthrough \\servername\C$ for example. You must have groups and users defined and also give them access to those shares. Also check your network configurations that your clients are using same ip address scheme as the server etc.

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by wroming

yes i know that but sharing is not even available for sharing. How do you fix this because on other machines it works fine and on this one it does not.

by wroming

Well that is obvious but I need to know why that it will not start. Because when i go to services and start it. The server service will not start i have plenty of disk space and virtual memory and yet it still tells me not enough disk space. What isthe fix?

by dragon

Has anything changed since SP5 was first installed? A lot of cases if the server service won't start, a re-install of the Sp will fix it.

by jacklr-ups

I've seen issues like this before with the "not enought disk space" error. Usually, the cause has been the network card driver. Trying using a different compatible driver and see if that gets you anywhere.

by green lantern

Two things.

First - If a service does not start - re install the latest service pack. If you have corrupted dlls or other system files this will fix the problem.

Second - I used to harrass a friend of mine by turning off sharing on his nt server.
I assume you are working on an NT server.
You can get it going again this way:

Open Policy Editor goto File create a New Policy. This will put two icons in the Editor window. Double click the "Default Computer" icon goto windows NT nework / Sharing. Here make sure the create shares option has a check black check mark on a white background not grey. The greyed out may or may not work but the black check on a white background does work. A message should appear in the lower box indicating default shares will be created automatically.

Save your policy and reboot. If this doesn't work there is a reg hack also I just don't remember it right now.

ralph

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