Windows 7 Pro cannot access eachother shared folders
Hello, I have encountered a very strange situation in which I have 3 laptops in a workgroup and when I set up a shared folder into the C: with full access permission to everyone both on the security and on the share tab I still cannot access it from the other laptops. When I type \\192.168.1.xx ip address of the laptop which has the folder shared it prompts me for the username and password for that pc and I have tried both the local user and also created a new admin account and still does not authenticate me and prompts back to insert credentials. Please suggest what could cause this issue since normally if you enable permission both on share and Security no issues are encountered Your help and suggestions are much appreciated
July 27th, 2010 7:20pm

Appearently you've got users with no passwords in your client computers. Give all your user accounts passwords and check if the problem is persisting. Please 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. Best regards.
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July 27th, 2010 7:36pm

But I added a local admin with a password and still I was prompted again to enter credentials
July 27th, 2010 7:54pm

Have you gone in and turned off password protected sharing, you need to create user a on computer b and so on everyone is just the users on the local PC not EVERYONE on the lan. there are MANY post here dealing with this as well as can be found by your friend google.
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July 27th, 2010 8:21pm

No I have not checked password protected sharing, but if on pc (A) I created an admin account and gave the share and Security full permissions, when I went on the other pc (B) it prompted for authentication and I entered the same admin account with its password of pc (A) that I created first so I was using the same machine local admin account. Do you see any problem in this ?
July 27th, 2010 8:41pm

Also could it be that both pcs have the same pc name because now I remember that both probably could have the same pc name set up. Is this possible or normally it gives some kind of error when this occurs on a workgroup setup ?
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July 27th, 2010 9:09pm

Try to give different names for the PCs and if you've got users with no password your shares will not be able to access. I faced this problem last week and when I had given all users passwords, the problem does not persist. Try to do what I've told you and tell me the result. (I repeat all users on your client computers should have passwords) Please 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. Best regards.
July 27th, 2010 9:35pm

No I can assure you that both users on the host pc which have the shared folder have passwords so I am ruling this possibility out. What else could cause the authentication to prompt again, it should not be a firewall issue since if it was I would not even get to the authentication request. Any further suggestions to try tomorrow ?
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July 27th, 2010 10:41pm

Try to give everyone NTFS and Share full control permission and check if you are able to access the folder without authentication. Best regards.
July 27th, 2010 10:46pm

OK Acmsoft let me try again, in your post you stated "I set up a shared folder into the C: with full access permission to everyone both on the security and on the share tab I still cannot access it from the other laptops." I take this that you are sharing the root C:\ is that right??? If so you need to understand that without using user / password you can only grant read access to c:\ as you are only using a guest account (that everyone group) (it is call forced guest in XP), and I will assume that the pc are not part of a domain as that changes everything. If the PC's are all windows 7 and you have no need to share with other OS's..have you looked at "homegroup" http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-in-windows-7-with-homegroup/ for win7 in a workgroup In the Advanced sharing settings page of Network and sharing center, you need to have it set as Home or Work (current profile). Turn on network discovery Turn on file and print sharing Public folder sharing...Think of this as "simple file sharing" in XP Me I turn it off as I only want shared what I WANT shared...it is up to you. Media streaming..... I leave it off. File sharing connections If you have anything other than win 7 devices on the network select. "Enable file sharing for devices that use 40 - 56 bit encryption" Turn OFF Password protected sharing unless you are wanting to create users / password for the shares
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July 28th, 2010 3:39am

No I am only trying to share a folder in c: and I am being stopped by authentication which is not even accepting the local pc Admin user and pass ( of the pc which holds the shared folder )
July 28th, 2010 7:01am

Have you tried to give full control NTFS and Share permissions to everyone? If it is done, the authentication is still required? Best regards.
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July 28th, 2010 1:47pm

not yet will post when done, by the way can I remove all groups and users from the security and share tab and just leave the everyone group on both of them ?
July 29th, 2010 8:17am

Yes you can do it with no problem, but, just a remark: the owner of the group is a person who can give himself full control on the folder even if he has not. Also, the SYSTEM account can give it self full control when it need it. So, don't forget these points. Please 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. Best regards.
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July 29th, 2010 2:55pm

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