Network sharing permissions

[justHaidingyou]

Hello TeamanFL,

Can you confirm that you have identical User names on both 192.168.1.3 LU-PC and
192.168.1.5 JOHN-PC, Also this user is at the same level - eg. Standard User or administrator.

Also you are using the advanced sharing on both machines.

NO, I do not. Both are administrator. Lu's PC name is LU. John's PC name is JOHN. I am using advanced sharing. I went to C:, did a right click, selected share, then clicked on advance, clicked on permissions, set "everyone" at full control-change-and read (all checked).
What else should I have done?

Well there are a lot of other complicated answers here, but I believe the reason you can't access the files is because you have only set sharing permissions, not security permissions as well.

Right click > properties, click on the security tab, now here add the "everyone" user with full permissions.

If it tells you "access is denied" then make sure you are the owner of the file. Go back to the security tab, click advanced then select the owner tab, click edit, and make "administrators" the new owner. Now close all that, right click and open properties again, now you should be able to change the security permissions.

If "everyone" has access in the security tab and sharing tab, then it should work fine. The answer you used also seems to have worked, but I think mine is easier.

 

[seasalt]

That solved my Vista 64 Home Premium problem sharing with my mixed XP workgroup. In the security settings among the Group & User Name objects you can select to share with there is NETWORK. That's what I selected, and it has enabled file sharing. Does anyone know how that differs from "everyone"

I couldn't find a "workgroup" object, but is there a way to enter a workgroup?

Anyone know the relative security of these settings? (i.e. whats "best"?)

 

[justHaidingyou]

The "NETWORK" group should be fine. It means that anyone using your router/gateway to access the internet can also access the selected files, which is a good setting I think, however i'm not extremely knowledgeable about this and there might be some exceptions where this setting does not work.

As for a "WORKGROUP" group, I'm not sure, but I don't think there is, and I don't think you could access another computer's shared files if you weren't in the same workgroup anyways.

The everyone group means what it says, EVERYONE, has access. However don't worry, because no one but local and workgroup users can access your computer anyways. If you enabled password protected sharing, then everyone would have to
enter the password first regardless.
Also, I assume you are using a router, which as far as I know always has its own built in firewall, so that no one from the outside can access your internal network, unless you disable the firewall or have port forwarding etc. which i doubt you have (those are not default settings.) So if you use everyone, or just network, it probably doesn't matter unless there is some hacker out to get you.

 

[BT123]

YES!! i so agree with john. This sharing thing is a headache!!!! for the life of me, i can't figure it out too!