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  • Date Created
    Wednesday, December 15, 2010
  • Last Updated
    Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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  • Short Desc
    when sharing across the network with windows 7 you may get an error telling you that it is not accessible or your do not have permission.
  • Details
    Creating network shares has always been rather easy to do, but now that Windows 7 has come along, we are faced with some more challenges in out goal to create that share across all computers in our network.
    The following error is just one of the few that you may receive when trying to access the Windows 7 share from another computer.

     
    \\win7pc\shared_folder 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.
  • Recreate Issue
    In Windows 7 Without the proper permissions set for the share, you will not be able to access it through the Network.
    Microsoft has tightened up their security for shares so that you have to go that extra step in order to allow someone access to the share, this in return may cause a person not to bother with performing the required steps to share their files.
    This is a good thing, reason:
    Sharing can be a bad thing to do if you do not properly set the permissions and allow the wrong person to access your files.
  • Resolve Issue
    To resolve this issue, perform the following.

    Choose the drive (or) folder that you want to share
    Right click and choose Properties
    ----Create Share----
    Click on the [Sharing] Tab
    Click on [Advance Sharing]
    Check the [Share this folder] at the top of the dialog box.
    Click on [Permissions]
    Click on [Add]
    Click on [Advanced]
    Click on [Find Now]
    Scroll through the list and Double click on [Everyone]
    Then click [OK]
    Check [Allow] for either: Read | Write | Full Control
    Click [Apply] then click [OK]
    Then click [OK] again.

    With the Properties dialog box still open perform the following.
    ----Set Security----
    Click on the [Security] tab
    Click on [Edit]
    Click on [Add]
    Click on [Advanced]
    Click on [Find Now]
    Scroll through the list and Double click on [Everyone]
    Then click [OK]
    Check [Allow] for either: Full Control | Modify | Read & Execute | List folders contents | Read | Write | Special Permission
    (In the above options, to allow someone to access the drive to read and write, choose [Modify] (or) [Full Control]
    Click [Apply] then click [OK]
    --Setting Security Settings On Shared Files--
    Now, depending on the size of your folder that you have chosen to share, this may take some time. On over 200 Gb folder, takes less that 2 minutes.
    Click [Close]

    ----Access Share from the Network----
    Now, go to another computer within your network and access the new share.

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