How to Share the Root of a Drive Under Vista

[Orkie]

Venturing into the Vista Rapids setting up my wife's computer and it is tough! Thanks for the thorough job in showing how to share a drive. Tried the MS solution but of course it didn't work.

[shibumi]

Thanks for this info, im glad i was able to find this forum thread rather quickly on google i was having problems sharing my ext hdd on my network an this helped a great deal. one thing i would like to note, after you click on the advanced tab an click the find now button the only 2 i had to add were NETWORK and NETWORK SERVICE, in reality both might not be needed but those are the 2 i added first at the same time. after which the system did a quick scan of the HDD and bam it worked over the network.... when i have more time ill test an figure out which of the 2 is needed granted it might be both, in any case you could create a new group containing those 2 called networkgroup or such and use that instead of adding them to the everyone group, granted if only one is needed then all youd have todo is add that specific group to the shared permissions, tho most people might find it easier to just add them to the everyone group. just thought id put it out there. but thanks again

[hugolpr]

I would like to thank for the tip. I have spent many hours reading tons of tips saying to change registers in Vista, and the solution was only a couple of clicks away.

Usually I never register in forums, but I confess it was the best!!!

Great!

HUGO

[brianc]

Thanks for the tip about sharing the root of a drive. I wanted to point out though that the root of each drive is already shared if you have file sharing turned on in vista. You don't have to manually share a drive's root. For example, the share name for C: is C$, the D: drive uses the share name D$, etc. I found this out in the computer management window. I have attached a screen shot of what my window shows to illustrate where I found this. I am currently only sharing a printer. I'm not sharing any folders, but as you can see, the root of each drive on my computer is shared already. I have only one hard drive but it has two partitions, C: which has the operating system and D: which I store my files on.