I have a network of two computers, one Windows 7 Professional, the other Windows XP Home. I'm trying to share all drives across both machines. Everything works fine except for one of the drives on the Windows 7 machine that is not accessible from the XP computer:

Windows 7 Professional, Computer name is Mars

Third internal hard drive, SATA, on-board controller

Drive letter M, named Mars Media

Drive shows "people" icon and claims to be shared

Does not have an "Everyone" entry on Properties ~ Security tab (as the other shared drives on this machine do)

However, if I go to Properties ~ Sharing ~ Advanced Sharing ~ Permissions, "Everyone" is listed with Full Control

It's mapped as M from the XP computer and I can see the drive from the XP computer but when I try to access it, I get an error:

M:\ is not accessible.

Access is denied.

How do I make this drive accessible to everyone (literally) on my home network?

Edited June 23, 201115 yr by NOTS3W

Add a local user account on the Win7 PC to use for sharing. Share your folder to that user. When you go to view the drive from XP, type in those credentials you set up.

Win7 has guest access disabled (not related to Guest account) since it is built off the Server platform.