CAnnot see shared drive on Network help?

Question

I have a Win2000 Dell latitude PII running with a USB 2.0 to a external Hard drive on a home LAN and I set the drive to 'Share'. But none of the PCs can see the Shared drive. Even the PC that has the drive attached cant see it when looking at Network. The Shared drive is connected and works fine via the USB, the win2000 PC itself sees and can write to the drive over USB. All the USB drivers are working and the drive shows up in the device manager correctly as a USB device under harddrives. I am trying to use this drive as backup location for my home LAN. All other PCs on LAN are XP. This is the only Win2000 OS. Any thoughts on how I can get the drive to be network accessible? Thanks!

jmwills · Answer

What Permissions are on the Share?

rkruz · Answer

im not sure. There is only one selection on the drive...to share. Is there somewhere else to select permissions? thx

jmwills · Answer

http://www.theeldergeek.com/quick_guide_to_simple_file_sharing.htm

This is a good place for you to start.

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rkruz · Answer

i added a 2nd share....the default would not access permissions...said Admin purpose only....then I added 2nd share and permssions were available and I set to all and now everyone can see. thx

jmwills · Answer

Yea, the default C$ is set is Admin purposes only.  It's a good idea to add the '$' to all your shares, it makes them hidden.

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