Windows 10: Problems configuring file share

Hello looking for some help,

I have two computers on my network, a desktop and a laptop. I want to be able to share all the files on my secondary hard drive on my desktop and all the files on my main drive on my laptop. So I had the network setup and the drives shared and everything appeared to be working fine.

I tested it by using file explorer on my laptop to navigate into a specific directory on the secondary drive on my desktop and was able to open and view a pdf file.

Later I tried to do copy a file from the desktop secondary drive via the laptop but could not access anything on my desktop. In file explorer on my laptop, it could see the desktop but I could not access any folders on it. I don't know if I changed something to cause this or if this was some type of WIN 10 issue.

After a lot of "messing around" with both computers, I can now access; Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos folders (these are located on my secondary drive) on my desktop but nothing more. I have no issues with file sharing the other direction as I can access all the files on my laptop via my desktop.

PS: What's the dea typing on this forum. tried using two different copters to tpe this mssage and boh times this is wat I get. (example of all the missing characters when I try and type on this forum). Very time consuming and frustrating.

Tim

:)

 

Using File History to "Keep Saved Versions" :The correct sequence of steps?

Greetings,

I have a question about the correct sequence of steps, for this situation. I'll present the two versions, here. Would a Microsoft engineer who's good with Windows 10, please help with this? I think version two is "more correct" since you would probably
turn File History on ...first, and then configure the "Keep Saved Versions" setting. Can you help?

Version 1:

* Create a network share, configure NTFS, and then share permissions.

* Configure the "Keep Saved Versions" setting.

* Turn on File History

Version 2:

* Create a network share, configure NTFS, and then share permissions.

* Turn on File History

* Configure the "Keep Saved Versions" setting.

 

Problem with applications

2nd problem..when i write dpkg --configure -a,terminal says:

Conf tuxrace (0.4 Extras:2.0/fremantle-1.3, Extras-devel:2.0/fremantle, Extras-testing:2.0/fremantle)

Conf vuvuzela (0.3-6 Extras-devel:2.0/fremantle)



--- 2011-01-05 23:25:38 ---

/usr/bin/apt-get -qy --allow-unauthenticated -o DPkg:ptions::=--force-confnew -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/opt/fapman-cache/sources.list -o Dir::State::lists=/opt/fapman-cache/lists -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts="" --auto-remove install active-desktop-sp- canola2-theme-flatred-
canola2- catorisegui- call-locker- jspeed- catorise- dicer- callnotify-

Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

The following packages will be REMOVED:

active-desktop-sp call-locker callnotify canola2 canola2-theme-flatred

catorise catorisegui dicer jspeed

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 9 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

11 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 4502kB disk space will be freed.

(Reading database ... 32724 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing active-desktop-sp ...

Removing call-locker ...

Removing callnotify ...

Removing canola2-theme-flatred ...

Removing canola2 ...

Removing catorisegui ...

Removing catorise ...

Removing dicer ...

Removing jspeed ...

Setting up wget (1.10.2-2osso3) ...

install-info(/usr/share/info/wget.info):

dpkg: error processing wget (--configure):

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Setting up libsmpeg0 (0.4.5+cvs20030824-2.3-0maemo1) ...

Optifying usr/share/doc/libsmpeg0 -> /opt/maemo/usr/share/doc/libsmpeg0

mv: cannot rename '/usr/share/doc/libsmpeg0': No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing libsmpeg0 (--configure):

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Setting up lockdaemon (0.0.6-1) ...

directory exists

cp: cannot stat '/tmp/mce.ini': No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing lockdaemon (--configure):

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-pygame:

python-pygame depends on libsmpeg0; however:

Package libsmpeg0 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing python-pygame (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Setting up tcl8.5 (8.5.8-2maemo2) ...

update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/man/man1/tclsh.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/tclsh.1: No such file or directory

update-alternatives: ignoring error.

mv: cannot rename '/usr/share/man/man1/tclsh.1.gz.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory

update-alternatives: unable to install /usr/share/man/man1/tclsh.1.gz.dpkg-tmp as /usr/share/man/man1/tclsh.1.gz: No such file or directory

update-alternatives: ignoring error.

Optifying usr/share/doc/tcl8.5 -> /opt/maemo/usr/share/doc/tcl8.5

mv: cannot rename '/usr/share/doc/tcl8.5': No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing tcl8.5 (--configure):

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nitdroid-installer:

nitdroid-installer depends on wget; however:

Package wget is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing nitdroid-installer (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of omnom:

omnom depends on python-pygame; however:

Package python-pygame is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing omnom (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of snapy:

snapy depends on python2.5-pygame; however:

Package python2.5-pygame is not installed.

Package python-pygame which provides python2.5-pygame is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing snapy (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of stopwatch:

stopwatch depends on python2.5-pygame; however:

Package python2.5-pygame is not installed.

Package python-pygame which provides python2.5-pygame is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing stopwatch (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tuxrace:

tuxrace depends on tcl8.5 (>= 8.5.0); however:

Package tcl8.5 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing tuxrace (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vuvuzela:

vuvuzela depends on python2.5-pygame; however:

Package python2.5-pygame is not installed.

Package python-pygame which provides python2.5-pygame is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing vuvuzela (--configure):

dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:

wget

libsmpeg0

lockdaemon

python-pygame

tcl8.5

nitdroid-installer

omnom

snapy

stopwatch

tuxrace

vuvuzela

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 

Hey thammondwis,
Check the NTFS Permission on the Shared Drive or Folder ... right click > Properties > Sharing > Advanced Sharing > Permissions ... Make sure the Group / User has Full Control. You might need to Add Everyone and give it Full Control.

 

Thanks for the help Eagle51.

I checked that on both computers. Both have only 1 user (Everyone) in the group/username section. Is that OK? Both computers do have the user Everyone already set to Full Control.

 

Still no joy and looking for help. One thing I noticed is that the network screen on File Explorer is noticeably different between my Desktop and Laptop. Not sure if this helps diagnose my issues any.

So on my Desktop when I open File Explorer and click on Network from the left window pane. At the top of the main window pane I have a section called Computer. In that section are icons for my Desktop computer, my Laptop computer, and also WDMyCloud which is an external cloud accessible hard drive hooked up to my network.

However on my Laptop, I don't have the Computer section at all. It's not that the Computer section has no icons, it's that there is no computer section. It starts with Media Devices.

 

Are you trying to connect to a complete drive or a share? By default a lot of drives are assigned a hidden share prefixed with $ .Open a cmd prompt type net share

post results

 

Thanks for the help Samuria,

Attached is the results. I don't necessarily need to share the entire drive if that will be more difficult.




The drive I a trying o share is E:

 

On my shared folders (properties > sharing > advanced sharing > permissions) I have 2 entries ...
Everyone - Full Control
Administrators - Full Control

On my shared folders (right click > share with > specific people) I have 2 entries ...
eagle - owner
Everyone - Read/Write

Note: I use a Local Account as Admin and I'm only sharing certain folders on my D: drive ... NOT the whole drive.

 

I made a few changes based on your post Eagle51 and it worked,,,for a little while.

Under the permissions I added Administrator with full control on both computers.

For specific people there is no option for that at the drive level, but on my desktop computer I setup a number of folders with the settings as you described (my username as owner and everyone with read/write).

I did one more thing, I renamed the desktop computer. It was named DESKTOP -xxxxxxx (don't remember the xxxxxx exactly but I think it was my motherboard model number), to just DESKTOP.

I then restarted both computers. And I could access with full control the shared drives on both computers form either computer. That was late last night. I went to bed and when I opened up the computers this morning I am back to where I was before in that I can't access the Desktop computer's shared drive from the Laptop computer. I don't get it?????

 

OK, I think I have it back working correctly ...at least for now!

What I did:

From File Explorer on my Laptop computer, I clicked on "This PC" icon in the left window pane. I noticed then that in the main window pane in the section labeled "network locations", there was an icon labeled L: xxxxx@xxx.com (desktop-yyyyy). The xxxx represent my email address. The yyyyy are from the previous computer name for my desktop. Because that is an old comuter name I decided to try and remove it. I right clicked on that icon and selected remove device. It then created a new icon labeled with "my email address (desktop)".

I then clicked on the "Network" icon in the left window pane and right clicked on a blank spot on the main window pane and selected refresh. After refreshing, It added icons for the Desktop Computer and the external MyCloud hard drive and I have full access to the Desktop computer shared drive.

I will report back later on if anything changes again. Fingers crossed.