Problems with Sharing Folders..

[Ray]

Ok, i use Hub to conenct my two computer together. (Well, i should've bought router, but bought a hub accidentally...Anyway, hubs and routers are not the points here) (I use Sygate Home Network)

I right clicked my C Drive and D Drive (different partition of my hard disk), and went to properties, and enabled file sharing through the network.
However, when i tried to access the folders inside, i got "Access Denied"....

So, all the subfolders of the Drive is not accessible unless i enable each folder's Network Sharing in the properties (1 by 1...)..

It wasn't like that before i format my computer, all subfolders were accessible just by enabling the network sharing of the drive.

Anyone know how i could do this?
I don't want to enable each folder 1 by 1 and having the "hands" on each folders...

Thx in advance.

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[Red Squirrel]

Actually, you should of got a router. A router will "close" the computers into an inside network by acting the same way as your ISP by providing an IP address to each computer, but it will be local only. Then you will be able to access each computer from inside the network. Right now you are sharing the drives to everyone on the internet, which makes it harder to connect to and also is a security risk. So you might want to get a router. Even if it's only like a 2 port, you can hook up the hub to it which will be like adding more ports to the router. A router alone is simply what makes a local network by doing nat, in simple terms, and a hub or switch is what makes it possible to connect the PCs together. A router that has 4 ports actually has a 4-port switch in it, as the router is just a uplink to the internet (or other network) and another port to connect a switch, but most routers have the switch built in to make it more convinient.

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