I can't seem to get my drives shared with the rest of the computers in the house. The printer will share. The drives are shown but access denied. All firewalls have been disabled. HomeGroup will only work with other Win7 computers. All here are XP pro 32bit. The only thing that works is the public directory. I would like to have full access to all drives. I have tried this with 64bit build 7000. I tried all of the setting on the Sharing panel and nothing seems to work. Is there a work around or is this going to be how Windows 7 wil be?

Hi, Please let us know more information. 1. Have you tried to print with the shared printer on the Windows XP Pro computers?2. Which drives do you share? Are they all system drives? 3. Does the issue occur when you access shared folders between Windows 7 beta computers without the Home Group? Does it occur between the Windows XP computers? I suggest that you check related settings. Open Control Panel\Network and Sharing Center. Click change advanced sharing settings in the left pane. In the right pane, make sure that network discovery, file and printer sharing are enabled.Arthur Xie - MSFT

Hello, Since posting my question I have reformated my system drive partition and reinstalled Windows 7. The new install still allows the partitions to be seen. There is only one system partition (C). C and D are access denied but E is accessed and readable and writeable. Could not access E before. I have not installed the print software yet. The printer was shared and usable on the previous install by the XP computers. (Just did the OS install last night) I have network discovery on and file and printer sharing enabled. Drives are shared to everyone. This occures between the XP computers. This is the only Windows 7 computer now. No one else wants it because of all of the drivers just shutting down and not working and then later they would start up. They just wanted things to work, not work on things to get them to work. Thank you JB

Hello, Well I got it done. Now the other three hard drives can be added( 10 partitions in all ). Went to Computer,right clicked on a drive, properties, security and saw differences in E. It had Everyone and CREATOR OWNER. The others didn't. C and D had Authenticated Users but E did not. Click on Add, and in the box I typed in Everyone and clicked OK. Set the allows then Apply and OK. Now it all works. Now it is testing time the way we use it here at home. If I could just stop loosing my video card driver and my M-Audio ASIO driver it would be great. Thanks again JB