shared drives

Hello! I have a really strange problem. I am using Windows 7 Professional with SP1 installed. I have a My Book 500GB external hard drive connected to the network via Linksys E3000. Now in Windows 7 I am logged in as Admin. The network disk is configured in Linksys, that an admin group can r&w...

I am using Windows 7, My desk top computers has three hard drives, the "C" with just the programmers and other system files, the other two hard drives (all SATA) are used with my main files (E & F) . Drives E & F are set as "Shared drives " I often update files between my Toshiba laptop (also...

I have set up a wi-fi network. My laptop has Win 7 home basic version. My desk top runs on XP and is hard wired to the wi-fi router.. I have used a belkins G level wi-fi router... all the laptops and the desktop are able to access the internet... 1. My WIN7 laptop is able to access my...

I am using a computer as a storage area network, which means i have a shared hard drive mapped to 12 computers in the network, since i upgraded the operating system from server 2003 to windows 7 professional 64bit I'm having a problem that only the computers with windows 7 can access the...

Hello. My situation is very common and simple: I'm running Windows XP mode within 7. I want to access a physical (non-virtual) drive with decent security precautions. As stated in Windows Virtual PC Help So, I want read-only access from XP. Besides messing with rights in XP (both cumbersome and...

I understand this question has been asked and answered hundreds of times but i still need help. I have 3 machines running XP and one desktop running windows 7. I have had the Win7 machine over a year and have hardly used it due to not being able to see the xp machines. The win7 machine was...

I have Windows 7 in my office. We have Windows domain. I have created several drive mappings to shared drives. They used to work. Now, whenever I reboot my PC, they have red x on them. I can click them and reactivate them but when I shutdown and power backup or restart...they go red x...

Setup: Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) I've been accessing the same couple of mapped drive shares, that reside on a linux host thru several versions of windows, XP, Vista and now Win7. I continue to get a rather ridiculous error message that only happens on win7 (I no longer have a Vista OS...

Have 2 Maxtor external drives, one GB and one TB drive. Both connected to a windows 7 PC and a network of 3 other PCs 1-win7, 2-vista. I can connect and access the 1TB drive no problem, but the 500 Gb shows up as a shared drive but I cannot access it remotely no matter what PC it's connected to...

I have a Router that has a harddrive connected to a USB port. This allows everyone on the network to access the harddrive. This works great in a Windows XP laptop. Now a new laptop having Windows 7 installed does not recogonize the same drive. Any idea or suggestion on how to setup or fix...

I had a system where a windows 7 X64 machine and a mac were using shared drives from another windows 7 X64 machine. All worked well. I had to change my router to a different model, and now the shared drives don't work. They come up as not connected and when I attempt to connect, they ask...

I have a user who just upgraded from XP to 7 and when we try to view our network they are receiving the error 0x80070035. They are on another subnet outside of my network but have a direct cable connection to my network as well. They can ping any of the servers within my network but when you try...

Hi Guys, I have a Zensonic Network Media Player which I'm having trouble getting it to see the Windows 7 shares and I believe the problem is with Windows 7. Basically all the Zensonic unit does is look at anything on the network in the same workgroup and then shows any shared drives. I have...

Hi, I work in a fairly large company and we use a logon script (pushed thru GPO) utilizing "NET USE" to access shared drives. In XP, the system simply skips those drives which user has no access rights to and goes back straight to the C:\drive prompt. This effectively puts an end to the script...

Ok I have 3 Pc's running Win 7 Premium. A laptop, a gaming pc and a media center pc. I have gone through each computer and shared my documents so i can move around video files/pictures/music to any pc from any pc, but for some reason I can't do it between all of the pc's. I can see the...

Hi, I have set 2 computers with Win 7 recently. One is my main workstation, and the other will be a home file server for documents, music, backups, etc. Both are on Win 7. Most of the time when I try to access the server or any of it's shared drives, it asks for credentials, which I...

Hi Kind of stuck, Win7 on both PC and Laptop (wireless), anksboth on the same IP ect, can Ping each other, but cannot access drives, yes they are shared and the firewalls are off, they can see each other but still no access to Main (pc) or laptop (Laptop) any help would be gr8. Th

I have searched all over and cannot find the answer to my specific problem, i see many answers on how to network the 2 machines but not the drive sharing problem, so any help would be great... the problem i am having is i have a windows 7 machine and 2 XP Machines, i have set up all the right...

I'm locked out of my 1.5TB Maxtor basics USB desktop drive, with the above notification. There's no access at all to the volume, which shows as 0 bytes in size, although the drive is shared and appears to have the required security permissions (Admin and user rights). I have tried it from 2...

Hi All, I have seen alot of people having issues with NAS devices and Win7 Libraries (including myself). I have already posted this in response to a query on the subject elsewhere in the forums, but thought I would stick it here as well - hope no-one minds. This relates to people who are...