Networked drive permissions issues

[suchamoneypit]

I have a partition on my server set as a network location. from my gaming PC, I can take any files from this network location, and even bring them back, but Im unable to add new files to the drive. When adding it, I even log in with the servers administrator account, and still, everytime I got o add a file from my gaming PC I get blocked due to permissions. On the server and gaming PC Ive set the folder to allow every single user all permissions, and nothing changes.

 

Im looking to have this folder be completely public on my LAN, for simple file transfer between my computers, in particular between my gaming PC and server. What am I doing wrong?

[dlink377]

Have you tried this on the folder you want to share?

 

Make sure you login using an admin account and the account password is not empty.

 

 

[suchamoneypit]

3 minutes ago, dlink377 said:

Have you tried this on the folder you want to share?

 

Make sure you login using an admin account and the account password is not empty.

 

 

 

That did it for me, I was changing the permissions elsewhere, instead of clicking "permissions" here and adding full control from there. Thanks! (you've helped me out on two threads now on networking, thanks!)

[dlink377]

Thanks! No problem, just sharing my knowledge since I found out this LTT forum surprisingly quite active, just I recently joined it. I always watch LTT but never go to their forums until today I see a forum post I really want to post about :).

 

Anyway, this approach probably not really secure in work environment, but for home it is good enough. Since Windows 7 SMB shares require a password even for Everyone permission shared folder, so it is quite secure for home users. You can try to do more research if you want more secure setup, since I see you want to learn networking seriously :).

 

I myself doesn't have any networking cert to begin with, probably will look into it in the future, or wait for the company to pay me for the exams :).