Sharing grayed out

Private network. In network and sharing center I have network discovery, file
sharing, print sharing, public sharing and printer sharing all turned on.
When I try to share a disk the sharing option is grayed out same with the
printer. What am I overlooking?

you cant share the root drive because its shared by default...In the
address bar type \\compnamehere\C$ to access the root drive just chnage
the c to what hard-drive ou want to access, printers are shared by
default aswell same procedure \\compnamehere\\printers$


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dmex

correction for printers \\compnamehere\\printers without the $ but for
hard drives you still need the $ \\compname\\c$ or \\compname\d$


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dmex

Hi
For security reason sharing of whole Drive is blocked.
You can share public folders, or create new folders, and establish for them
your own rules.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Lawton" <Lawton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:80831684-535F-4355-AE6D-AD1490FF8E63@microsoft.com...
> Private network. In network and sharing center I have network discovery,
> file
> sharing, print sharing, public sharing and printer sharing all turned on.
> When I try to share a disk the sharing option is grayed out same with the
> printer. What am I overlooking?

The whole drive is shared on every vista and XP machine by default and
can be accessed allready without you changing anything.


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dmex

i havent seemed to figure it out i have vista ultimate 32 bit and i used
to be able to share any folder on the hd now it is some how greyed out i
liked the fact i could play a game from one computer on another now i
cannot what happend??? could a program such as spybot adware or ccleaner
be the cause i dont seem to understand as the advanced sharing tab below
is able to be clicked my problems all seem to relate to a software
curruption of some sort on the pc when im on the 2nd machine with xp it
says


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jg211

These search results may help.

a.. Why the Share is grayed out on Vista
A: If you disable File haring Wizard on the Vista, the Share would be
grayed out . Please refer to this how to for more information: How to
disable/enable ...
www.chicagotech.net/vista/sharing2.htm


a.. grayed out for a root drive in Vista. It is recommended to share a >>
folder ... . On my Vista Laptop, the Share is grayed out because of the File
....
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums...8037f203c0b2e0


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Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"jg211" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> i havent seemed to figure it out i have vista ultimate 32 bit and i used
> to be able to share any folder on the hd now it is some how greyed out i
> liked the fact i could play a game from one computer on another now i
> cannot what happend??? could a program such as spybot adware or ccleaner
> be the cause i dont seem to understand as the advanced sharing tab below
> is able to be clicked my problems all seem to relate to a software
> curruption of some sort on the pc when im on the 2nd machine with xp it
> says
>
>
> --
> jg211