Cannot acess shared dirves in Windows 7
Hi Everybody We are having a small network of 4 laptops all having win7 prof as OS. We have assigned worknetwork to the computer and shared a single drive in all the Laptops to be accessed by each of the user if required. They are all connected through a wireless network which also provides internet access to the network. All seems to work fine While accessing the network we are able to see the computers in the network and shared drive but while accessing the drive we get the following error message Windows cannot access \\network computer name\e(shared drive name) You dont the have the permission to acces \\network computer name\e(shared drive name)Contact your network administrator to request access. We have given permission for full control to users, everyone, administrators for the shared drive but still find this problems Can anybody help us solve this issue Thanks a ton Shrejeet
July 14th, 2010 4:56pm

Hi, I would like to suggest: 1. Make sure that you add Everyone to both Sharing and Security tab. Add Everyone to Sharing tab ===================== 1) Right click the shared folder and click Properties. 2) Click Sharing and click Advanced Sharing… 3) Click Permissions and add Everyone to the user names. 4) Click OK. Add Everyone to Security tab ====================== 1) Right click the shared folder and click Properties. 2) Click Security and click Edit. 3) Click Add. 4) Type: Everyone and click OK. 5) Assign Read permission to Everyone. 6) Click OK. 2. If the shared folder still can’t be accessed, please temporarily disable Windows Firewall and security software. 3. Try accessing the shared folder using UNC path: \\machine_name\folder 4. Try accessing the shared folder using \\ipaddress\folder. Best Regards DalePlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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July 16th, 2010 9:44am

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