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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:49:29 pm »

Both.

Although oddly enough I didn't give change any permissions on C and now it works too. I'm starting to think something else must be afoot here - perhaps one of the other 50 things I changed in the course of trying to clean up my system and get things working. Sorry for the red herring

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:43:12 pm »

yup, for both the drive and folder

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:40:37 pm »

attached screenshots.

for the folder, the "everyone" user has read and execute, list, read
the wmpnetwork svc just has read,
every other account has everything

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:36:15 pm »

The folder i'm sharing has full control for "Everyone" and "Administrators", and the root drive has the same.

Before I got it working it didn't have the "Everyone" permission (and i couldn't even add that on the folder, i could only do that once i did it for the entire drive d:\)

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:12:28 pm »

Yeah - me too.

Also, the "reset file permissions" tool in your all in one solution - is there any way to make it run on other drives than just C:\?

Thanks for your help.

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 09:08:27 pm »

Ahh - interesting development:

I shared the entire drive and gave everyone full access and now homegroup sharing works. It's a "good enough" solution since I'm not networking this PC outside of my house, but it's kind of a hack.

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 08:58:33 pm »

I've shared it and given full control to "Everyone", now the other machine can see it but says it doesn't have permission to view its contents.

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General Computer Support / Re: "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 08:37:18 pm »

Unfortunately that's not the problem - I ran the troubleshooter on both machines and it didn't come up with the same problem that guy had.

I've googled this a bit too and tried a bunch of solution and have come up empty

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General Computer Support / "Your folder can't be shared":

« on: August 04, 2012, 08:19:49 pm »

So I got the zeroaccess virus and cleaned it up using a few tools, and it left my windows firewall and update service a bit broken. So I ran the all in one solution from this website, but now my folders can no longer be shared with the homegroup (both machines running win7).

I just get the unhelpful error message "Your folder can't be shared". My user is the owner of the folder.

My Control Panel Settings (Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Advanced Sharing Settings) are:
Network discovery ON
 File and printer sharking ON
Public folder sharing ON
Media streaming OFF
128-bit encryption Password protection OFF