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How to Share the Root of a Drive Under VistaWell one of the biggest challenges I've had with Vista has been file
sharing related. I'm on a secure (read: wireless w/ lead paint in the
walls) home network, so when I share a folder, I just want everyone to
be able to access it from any PC in the house. It's that simple, or so
it seems.
Vista makes sharing folders a pain. When you click share on a normal
folder (right click, then "share"), you have to add the "Everyone"
permission to that folder in order for anyone to be able to access it.
I wonder why Vista would assume that when you share a folder you don't
want anyone to be able to access it except yourself.... from the
machine on which it's shared..... I've actually tried created an
account with identical sign-in credentials to the Vista machine and it
will not allow it to access files that have my own name as the "Owner"
with full permissions....
Anyway, after some struggling I figured out how to share folders.
Here's problem #2 though. I use a full drive as my "My Documents"
folder. Basically it's a RAID-1 with anything that I could possibly
value stored on it. That way I don't have to waste space on my RAID
with my Vista install/programs etc by mirroring my main drive and
storing everything in default directories. So that means in order to
share all of my "My Documents" stuff over the network (music, movies,
etc), I need to share the root of a drive.
Vista will allow the permissions to be set, even though you have to do
it manually by right clicking, then hitting "share", and manually
setting the permissions to everyone, but then when you try to access it
from a remote computer, it will say "access is denied". So I struggled
with this for a bit, and finally I decided to dig deeper. Here's how to
share the root of a drive under Vista:
In the Start menu click "Computer"
Right click on the drive and go to properties
Click security tab
Click edit
Click Add
Click Advanced
Click Find Now
Click OK
Then just keep clicking OK until your security tab includes "Everyone"
for the root of the drive like mine does in the screenshots. You will
still have to set permissions for "Everyone" under the sharing tab of
the drive, but this is much simpler and instructions can be found for
that online, but I couldn't find a guide for this anywhere so I thought
I'd make one :)