Hi everyone. I'm having a problem with sharing between Windows 7 and Windows XP. I had everything set up perfectly before. I have a folder called "Media" on my Windows 7 computer, and that has all my music and videos and stuff in it. I had turned off needing a password to access public files, and specified that any account on the network could access such public files. This was on my D drive, which is an external. I bought a new internal SATA, and made this my new D drive, moving the external contents to it, with the exception of a folder in Media called "Shows". I moved the contents of the shows folder to the root of the external, and mounted that drive in the empty "Shows" folder on my new D drive. So far, so good. Same setup, much more space. Except now, the Windows XP computers in my house cannot access my shared folders. There is one other computer in the house with Windows 7, and we are in the same homegroup. That computer can access my files just fine. The Windows XP computers, however, cannot. I've tried removing the libraries and remaking them, I've tried just sharing them through advanced sharing, giving read permissions to "Everyone" and designating a network name, I've created a new workgroup (not a homegroup!) and put both the XP computer and the Windows 7 computer into it, and restarted both computers, nothing seems to work. And I still have the same settings. Now, here is the very odd part. The Windows XP computers can still access my public documents on my C drive. So, this leads me to believe it has something to do with the D drive. I've checked the permissions for the Media folder, and they are the same as the old ones were. The error I'm getting on the XP computer is: \\Computer_Name\Media is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions. Access is denied. Any help anyone could provide would be much appreciated. This is a repost of something I posted on the social.answers.microsoft.com forums, but, I found their community to be much less helpful than this one usually is, and I went there by mistake at first, intending to find technet, and decided I may as well post anyhow.

In most this i spermission issue. Have you assigned permission in Security tab? Or this troubleshooting page may help: Windows 7 Access denied Issues - http://www.chicagotech.net/windows7/win7accessdenied.htmBob Lin, MS-MVP Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.howtonetworking.com

Like I said in my original post, I have assigned Read permissions to "Everyone". The blue link located on here on technet 404s. I checked everything in the chicagotech.net link. Just in case, I took ownership of the entire folder I'm trying to share. I also checked that registry key toward the bottom, but, "restrictanonymous" was already set to 0. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with it being on a new hard drive, some permission that formatting won't set by default or something. Like I said earlier, the XP computers can get to the Shared documents on C, but not the ones on D, both drives being ones on the Windows 7 computer. Thanks for trying, though.

There are two places to setup permissions. One is Shared and another is Security. Have you assigned permissions on both? If you click this link: http://www.chicagotech.net/windows7/win7accessdenied.htm it will bring you to the case collections. In those case, it mentioned it could be anti virus, registry issues.Bob Lin, MS-MVP Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.howtonetworking.com

Ack. I didn't realize that the Sharing area didn't give those permissions to the Security. I did read that entire page though. Thanks, and sorry for bothering you guys. >.<