How do I give a specific computer FULL access to a Windows 7 computer?
Can some one tell me how to give a specific computer in our small network 100% full access to my Windows 7 computer? We have a windows NT based CNC machine(I'll call that the CNC) that is having a hard time communicating with my Windows 7 computer(I'll call that the PC). When I had windows XP I easily found a spot to enter the IP address of the CNC and that seemed to do the trick but, in windows 7 there is about 8 zillion different options and I am not sure where to achieve what I am trying to achieve. The folder the CNC needs to see, on the PC, is already shared. The CNC can access the shared folder but it forgets that it is available every time it is shutdown. The NT machine essentially sees it as a mapped drive. Every morning I have to retell it where the drive is.
August 30th, 2012 8:06am

I am not sure of this approach. Check if it works: In your Windows 7 machine, Give full access to <Specific Computer>\Everyone. See if it works.-Jai
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August 30th, 2012 8:09am

I am not sure I know what you mean. Where would I allow the full access?
August 30th, 2012 8:23am

grmichmush wrote: Can some one tell me how to give a specific computer in our small network 100% full access to my Windows 7 computer?  We have a windows NT based CNC machine(I'll call that the CNC) that is having a hard time communicating with my Windows 7 computer(I'll call that the PC).  When I had windows XP I easily found a spot to enter the IP address of the CNC and that seemed to do the trick but, in windows 7 there is about 8 zillion different options and I am not sure where to achieve what I am trying to achieve.  The folder the CNC needs to see, on the PC, is already shared.  The CNC can access the shared folder but it forgets that it is available every time it is shutdown.  The NT machine essentially sees it as a mapped drive.  Every morning I have to retell it where the drive is.  <http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/159450> The Everyone approach does not work well in Win7. I would setup a user on the Win7 machine, which has full access to the share and use a script just cotaining "net use X: \\PC\SHARE /User PC\user password" to connect from CNC to PC, which I'd run at every logon/startup of the CNC. I am not sure that persistent connections work between NT and Win7 as I haven't used NT for quite a long time but in theory a persistent connection should work too. Wolfgang
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August 30th, 2012 10:07am

Are you saying to run that script on the NT based CNC or on the Windows 7 pc? And just to be sure, I would then setup a user on the PC named CNC, with a password of CNC. (does it HAVE to have a password?). My main drive of the PC is C: So then the script would read "net use C:\\PC\SHARE/CNC\CNC" without the quotes. Is that correct?
August 30th, 2012 4:00pm

grmichmush wrote: Are you saying to run that script on the NT based CNC or on the Windows 7 pc?  And just to be sure, I would then setup a user on the PC named CNC, with a password of CNC. (does it HAVE to have a password?).  My main drive of the PC is C:  So then the script would read "net use C:\\PC\SHARE/CNC\CNC" without the quotes.  Is that correct? You run the script on the NT based CNC and the user has to be setup at the Win7 PC. As you do not want to map your remote files to your C: drive you have to chose anaother free drive letter. Normally D: would be used for CD/DVD drives so with E: or F: you probably could go. Cautious people like to use scripts where they assign the last drive letters first, that makes Z: a quite popular drive letter. If you e.g. use Z: as drive letter you would map with the following command "net use Z: \\PC\C /User PC\CNC CNC" If you create the same user with the same password on the NT based CNC, too - and run your programs under this user on the CNC machine - you can shorten your command to "net use Z: \\PC\C". Wolfgang
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August 30th, 2012 5:52pm

Hi, Just check if you have any update about the issue. Regards. Jeremy Wu TechNet Community Support
September 3rd, 2012 1:50am

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