Easy way to share windows folders/drives in Windows7
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Hi There,

I found a really reliable way to share folders in Windows7.
It originated because everytime I rebooted Windows7 would forget my shared
USB drive, I figured out it was the drive, its a WD 3TB and it makes the
computer hang at boot time and i had to power cycle either the drive or
computer (really annoying) anyways it also seem to made it sporatic loose the share. (only sometimes..really wierd)

This works on a fresh install of Windows7, never modded anything, registry, homegroup, etc, as so many are talking about.

All i did was make this bat file:
Code:
net share [b]USB_SHARE1[/b]=E:\ /GRANT:[b]XBMC[/b],FULL

USB_SHARE1 Is the share name.
XBMC Is the user who will have access.

Then make a shortcut and tick run as administrator or disable UAC, and stick it in the startup folder.
Anyways this seems to just work, with or without workgroup. I recommend leaving any a workgroup, this makes it less complicated and errorfree when browsing to the share in XBMC. Another good idea is to use the same user and password on both boxes, that way you never have to supply any user/password when browsing your SMB shares in XBMC.

Regards
tuxen

Ohh.. and PS.
Should anyone know why the computer hangs at restart on my USB 3TB please come forward.
It's configured as GPT, could that be it? Basic disks can not exceed 2TB.
I notice in the BIOS it comes up as 345MB or something wierd. I am running in ICHI mode, the Windows version is 64bit.
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