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December 31st 08, 03:52 AM
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Can't Share Removable Drive
I have three PCs networked. All running WinXP Pro SP2. It's an all-wired
network. I have an external hard drive connected to one of the PCs through a USB 2.0 port. I have no trouble accessing the external drive from the PC it is directly connected to but I am not able to access it from the other PCs on the network. The network is working OK. I am able to access any drive in any of the PCs from either of the other PCs - except for the external drive. I tried another external drive and I have the same problem with it. I have WinXp Network Sharing & Security setup to allow the external drive to be accessed from the other PCs. Network sharing is working for everything except the external drive. What could be causing this? Is there something about external drives that makes them Non-Networkable? (I don't think so but not sure why this is happening.) Thanks. Peter -- **Remove Xs to reply by e-mail** 
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December 31st 08, 09:15 PM
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Can't Share Removable Drive
What's the system error if you do net view
\\remorepcname\externalsharedname? -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "Peter" wrote in message ... I have three PCs networked. All running WinXP Pro SP2. It's an all-wired network. I have an external hard drive connected to one of the PCs through a USB 2.0 port. I have no trouble accessing the external drive from the PC it is directly connected to but I am not able to access it from the other PCs on the network. The network is working OK. I am able to access any drive in any of the PCs from either of the other PCs - except for the external drive. I tried another external drive and I have the same problem with it. I have WinXp Network Sharing & Security setup to allow the external drive to be accessed from the other PCs. Network sharing is working for everything except the external drive. What could be causing this? Is there something about external drives that makes them Non-Networkable? (I don't think so but not sure why this is happening.) Thanks. Peter -- **Remove Xs to reply by e-mail**
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