Hi everybody, I have a problem with my home network:
i've shared my external HD over my LAN Wifi network, but it seems I cant access it from the other computers and devices connected to the network
The network structure is the following:
the pc is connected through cable to a router.
other devices connect via wifi to the router.
the pc is a desktop (Windows XP SP3), and my external hd is connected to it via USB
if I try to access a shared folder residing n that HD, i have this answers:
-My MacosX says me this "The operation cannot be completed because the original item for "HD" cannot be found "
-My other win xp(home ed sp3) laptop says ""\\path-blah\blah\blah\ 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. The network path was not found.""
-My android smartphone just says "failure"
obviously i've shared the folder enabling all the permissions, just in the same way I do with other folders
In fact, I need to point out that every other shared folder, residing in the internal HDs of the system is accesible without no problems.
Instead every folder, for every kind of external HD, though shared with the same identical permissions of every other folder, it is still not accessible
Apparently the problem resides exclusively on the desktop machine: the win xp laptop is able to let other computers access to its external HDs, over the network.
I dont think the problem resides in the permission settings, because in xp home there is not much freedom in permission setting, also I use the same identical procedure to share every folder (i.e. right click, sharing.., enable sharing, allow modification), but only the ext hd are affected by this problem.
the funny thing is that I used to be able to do this, long time ago, when I had a different desktop machine, which had the same identical OS, but a different hardware.
It may be an hardware problem? i find it hard to believe that hardware may play a part in this .... it may be an USB driver problem?
What can I do ? I'm going crazy!
i've shared my external HD over my LAN Wifi network, but it seems I cant access it from the other computers and devices connected to the network
The network structure is the following:
the pc is connected through cable to a router.
other devices connect via wifi to the router.
the pc is a desktop (Windows XP SP3), and my external hd is connected to it via USB
if I try to access a shared folder residing n that HD, i have this answers:
-My MacosX says me this "The operation cannot be completed because the original item for "HD" cannot be found "
-My other win xp(home ed sp3) laptop says ""\\path-blah\blah\blah\ 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. The network path was not found.""
-My android smartphone just says "failure"
obviously i've shared the folder enabling all the permissions, just in the same way I do with other folders
In fact, I need to point out that every other shared folder, residing in the internal HDs of the system is accesible without no problems.
Instead every folder, for every kind of external HD, though shared with the same identical permissions of every other folder, it is still not accessible
Apparently the problem resides exclusively on the desktop machine: the win xp laptop is able to let other computers access to its external HDs, over the network.
I dont think the problem resides in the permission settings, because in xp home there is not much freedom in permission setting, also I use the same identical procedure to share every folder (i.e. right click, sharing.., enable sharing, allow modification), but only the ext hd are affected by this problem.
the funny thing is that I used to be able to do this, long time ago, when I had a different desktop machine, which had the same identical OS, but a different hardware.
It may be an hardware problem? i find it hard to believe that hardware may play a part in this .... it may be an USB driver problem?
What can I do ? I'm going crazy!
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