Shared Drive

**Zonie** · March 20th, 2010, 10:08 AM

Have a 320GB USB external hard drive attached to my XP Pro machine and shared with an assigned letter of "F". I use this for the backup in the household network. When the PC is shutdown for the night then started the next day, the share is gone and I have to re-share it again with all permissions. Anyone have an idea why this is happening?

**Ferrit** · March 20th, 2010, 07:13 PM

Have you assigned the letter F? or does it reassign new letters all the time?

**Zonie** · March 21st, 2010, 09:59 AM

The drive has been assigned the letter F.

**Gabriel** · March 23rd, 2010, 01:15 AM

Hi,
are you using "simple file sharing" (which always seems to me as the least simple way...)
if so - disable the feature
http://www.easy-for-you.com/images/folderoptions.gif

Cheers,
Gabriel

**Zonie** · March 23rd, 2010, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Hi,
are you using "simple file sharing" (which always seems to me as the least simple way...)
if so - disable the feature
http://www.easy-for-you.com/images/folderoptions.gif

Cheers,
Gabriel

Thank you for the info, checked on this and found I did have simple file sharing turned off. I thought what the heck and remembered I did this to gain access to a protected folder. I have now turned it back on to see if this was the problem.