I have searched and read articles until I am blue in the face, jumped through hoops and burning rings of fire, and near lost what little mind I have, trying to get this situation sorted.
We have four machines on our home network; two HPs with Windows 7 Home Premium; two DELLs with Windows 7 Pro.
I have finally managed to get our network sharing working as it should --- with a single exception, all four machines and all four "users" can access anything anywhere on any of the other machines.
However, there is one user (who is Administrator) on one of the DELLs that, no matter what I have tried, can only access a single public folder on the other DELL; anything else on the other DELL machine that the user on the DELL in question tries to access immediately gets a notice that they do not have the proper clearance to access and to notify the network administrator, etc., etc.
This user can access anything on the other two machines.
The other DELL can access everything on the DELL that cannot access it.
I can log in under a different user and access everything that the other user cannot.
When I try to simply add this specific user to the permissions list in advanced sharing, it will only let me verify user names "from this location"; it will not allow me to type the name of the other machine, nor change the "location" in any way; when I click "Location", the only choice it lists is the machine that I am on and will not allow me to add another machine.
I can click on the text box and it will give me a blinking cursor, but it will not acknowledge my typing.
What do I do to fix this ?
Thanks for reading.
We have four machines on our home network; two HPs with Windows 7 Home Premium; two DELLs with Windows 7 Pro.
I have finally managed to get our network sharing working as it should --- with a single exception, all four machines and all four "users" can access anything anywhere on any of the other machines.
However, there is one user (who is Administrator) on one of the DELLs that, no matter what I have tried, can only access a single public folder on the other DELL; anything else on the other DELL machine that the user on the DELL in question tries to access immediately gets a notice that they do not have the proper clearance to access and to notify the network administrator, etc., etc.
This user can access anything on the other two machines.
The other DELL can access everything on the DELL that cannot access it.
I can log in under a different user and access everything that the other user cannot.
When I try to simply add this specific user to the permissions list in advanced sharing, it will only let me verify user names "from this location"; it will not allow me to type the name of the other machine, nor change the "location" in any way; when I click "Location", the only choice it lists is the machine that I am on and will not allow me to add another machine.
I can click on the text box and it will give me a blinking cursor, but it will not acknowledge my typing.
What do I do to fix this ?
Thanks for reading.