Until recently I have had absolutely not problems with my setup. I have a
“central� PC with a few external Lacie 500Gb drives attached, and these
drives shared via normal XP Pro file and drive sharing.

However, recently I am having problems with this, and basically after a
reboot, the drives are no longer shared. I then have to share them again, and
all works fine. When I share these drives, I set up access to be limited to a
specific user account, with all access, and I always delete remove the
“everybody� access.

In the Event Viewer there is nothing out of the ordinary.

Please give me some things to check, this is driving me crazy.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:50:04 -0800, KillerBob wrote:

> I always delete remove the
> ´everybody¡ access.

The "Everyone" group is a tricky one. It includes everyone - limited users
and administrators a like. A lot of snafus can occur if you tweak
permissions/security settings the wrong way with this group. One way to
avoid many troubles is to require passwords for user accounts as this will
side step "anonymous" issues.

If you visit the Windows XP Support Center here:
http://support.microsoft.com
and search for "everyone," you'll get a long list of more examples and
issues. Here's just a few of the articles related to this topic:

Group policies are not applied the way you expect; "Event ID 1058" and
"Event ID 1030" errors in the application log
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314494

How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040

Everyone Group Does Not Include Anonymous Security Identifier
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;278259

You receive an "Access is denied" error message when you try to access the
Shared Documents folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;897103

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User