Unlock LAN Securities

[garrthbarrttinn]

I often times want to take something off my computer from another computer on the network. But I have to go through shared and public folders which is annoying as hell. So I’ve looked everywhere in setting and unlocked any security I could find that might do it, but it still won’t let me access my hard drive from another computer. Does anyone know what I should do to unlock it?

And I don’t give shit about dangers or anything like that.

[johnyo]

[sersoft]

I’m not running w7 right now, but to share folders in it (after going through the options in network n sharing center) right click on folder you want to share, find where it shows your username and add “everyone” to the list.

[garrthbarrttinn]

I’ve done that, and it seems like it should work. But in the network it says it’s shared but when I try and access it it says some shit about not having permissions.

[sersoft]

like I said, go to network n sharing and find the option that says enable password protected sharing and put it to off, and make sure you add everyone to the read permission

[garrthbarrttinn]

@sersoft

like I said, go to network n sharing and find the option that says enable password protected sharing and put it to off, and make sure you add everyone to the read permission

I swear I’ve done exactly that. I’ve pretty much rooted through all the network settings and turned off anything that looks like it could be the problem.

[sersoft]

I should mention that there are some folders that cannot be shared due to local ntfs permissions, that’s why I always use Administrator as my primary user account even in Win7. Because fuck you Microsoft and your limited administrator accounts.

So I just got my hands on a windows 7 machine and here’s how you do it. Right click on folder, choose Share With, “Specific People”, then in the drop box choose everyone and click Add.

[garrthbarrttinn]

@sersoft

I should mention that there are some folders that cannot be shared due to local ntfs permissions, that’s why I always use Administrator as my primary user account even in Win7. Because fuck you Microsoft and your limited administrator accounts.

So I just got my hands on a windows 7 machine and here’s how you do it. Right click on folder, choose Share With, “Specific People”, then in the drop box choose everyone and click Add.

Well, I guess I just can’t share my Local disk even though it says I can.
So I did what you said with some other folders and it kept saying could not share folder. So I check from another computer, and it was sharing all those folders it said it couldn’t.

So it doesn’t share what it says it can share and then it does share what is says it can’t share. Brilliant.

Thanks Sersoft.

[russilker]

Run command prompt as an administrator (in the Windows 7 search box, type in “cmd” and then right click on the file that comes up and click “Run as Administrator”). In the black window that comes up, type in “takeown /f DIRECTORY”, but replace the word DIRECTORY with the actual directory you want to share (like C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop, for example. But put the directory in quotes if there are any spaces in it, like in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts”). Note that you need to be under an administrator account to do all of this, and it might not work with subdirectories; you’ll have to do the same to them manually.

THEN try to share the directory you just took ownership of.

[BaTz281]

Or you could just try the admin shares…

I.e. if you’re on ComputerName1, and you want to access the D drive on the machine FileBox, open My Computer in ComputerName1, go to the address bar and type \Filebox\D$ - it should prompt you for a user and pass (which you’ll need matching accounts on both machines, if memory serves me). The $ tells Windows to access the remote admin shares.