Hard Drive invisable to LAN, why?

[Robert Bodling]

I just added a much-needed hard drive to my computer. It is seen by the computer, but not on the LAN on any other computer and not when looking on the LAN of the computer it is on!!! In the past, it was a simple thing of removing the Firewall or non-sharing, or something like that. Not this time. I have checked all of those things. It simply isn't there. But one I added before was OK when I installed it. I took it out and put this one in the exact same place as the other, smaller one, and it works fine, but won't show up on the LAN anywhere, which is the main thing I got it for: to be used as storage on our server. I couldn't find any help when Googling it. A couple of hours on that just gave me stuff about sharing.
Where do I go from here?

 

[Brian A.]

"Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I just added a much-needed hard drive to my computer. It is seen by the computer,
but not on the LAN on any other computer and not when looking on the LAN of the
computer it is on!!! In the past, it was a simple thing of removing the Firewall or
non-sharing, or something like that.

There's no need to remove/disable the firewall and you shouldn't except for
troubleshooting. Depending on the firewall used and your LAN setup you may have to
open a port and/or set the machines IP in the Trusted Zone of the firewall. As for
Windows (Ack!!!) firewall, at the least you need to make sure that File and Print
Sharing is set as allowed.
As for the drive you need to either Share it, a partition on it, or Map it.

Another thing that makes a difference is the flavor of XP used, both Home/Pro have
Simple File Sharing enabled by default, yet in order to change/disable it in Home you
need to do it in Safe Mode as an Administrator. Once disabled you will also see a
Security tab where you can set permissions.

Not this time. I have checked all of those things. It simply isn't there. But
one I added before was OK when I installed it. I took it out and put this one in the
exact same place as the other, smaller one, and it works fine, but won't show up on
the LAN anywhere, which is the main thing I got it for: to be used as storage on our
server. I couldn't find any help when Googling it. A couple of hours on that just
gave me stuff about sharing.

And Sharing or Mapping is what you want to do if you want other machines on your
LAN to gain access.

Where do I go from here?

Please provide your LAN setup, OS's/flavor, firewall products (software and/or
hardware), etc.



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Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Brian A.]

"Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:469964e0$0$4930$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
I just added a much-needed hard drive to my computer. It is seen by the computer,
but not on the LAN on any other computer and not when looking on the LAN of the
computer it is on!!! In the past, it was a simple thing of removing the Firewall or
non-sharing, or something like that. Not this time. I have checked all of those
things. It simply isn't there. But one I added before was OK when I installed it.
I took it out and put this one in the exact same place as the other, smaller one, and
it works fine, but won't show up on the LAN anywhere, which is the main thing I got
it for: to be used as storage on our server. I couldn't find any help when
Googling it. A couple of hours on that just gave me stuff about sharing.
Where do I go from here?

BTW, I didn't see any mention of your setting the machine up for the network. Did
you?:
Right click MyComputer.
In the popup menu click Properties > Computer Name tab > Change button, input the
machine LAN name and Network Domain or Workgroup name.
or
Right click MyNetwork Places.
In the popup menu click Properties.
Run either the New Connection Wizard or the New Setup Wizard.

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Robert Bodling]

All machines have WIN XP SP2. All have all the firewalls removed. All have
the new drive mapped. The new drive has print/file sharing activated. I
can SEE the drive on all the computers now. It lists the drive, all folders
on it, and all files on the main drive itself. But I cannot open any folder
nor access any file, even to do a directory. LAN is thru a LINKSYS 4 port
router NR041. This is exact same way the old drive was set up that worked
fine. Nothing else was changed.



A Question: the jumpers. There are 2 modes shown on the drive: 15 and 16
head. How do I know which this one is? It came set for the 16 head, but I
don't see any stat on the info sticker that tells. It is a Hitachi Deskstar
model HDS722525VLAT80 ATA/IDE 200 GB P/N 14R9203.

"Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message
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> "Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:469964e0$0$4930$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> I just added a much-needed hard drive to my computer. It is seen by the
> computer, but not on the LAN on any other computer and not when looking on
> the LAN of the computer it is on!!! In the past, it was a simple thing of
> removing the Firewall or non-sharing, or something like that. Not this
> time. I have checked all of those things. It simply isn't there. But
> one I added before was OK when I installed it. I took it out and put this
> one in the exact same place as the other, smaller one, and it works fine,
> but won't show up on the LAN anywhere, which is the main thing I got it
> for: to be used as storage on our server. I couldn't find any help
> when Googling it. A couple of hours on that just gave me stuff about
> sharing.
> Where do I go from here?
>
> BTW, I didn't see any mention of your setting the machine up for the
> network. Did you?:
> Right click MyComputer.
> In the popup menu click Properties > Computer Name tab > Change button,
> input the machine LAN name and Network Domain or Workgroup name.
> or
> Right click MyNetwork Places.
> In the popup menu click Properties.
> Run either the New Connection Wizard or the New Setup Wizard.
>
> --
>
> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
> Conflicts start where information lacks.
> http://basconotw.mvps.org/
>
> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>
>
>
>

 

[Brian A.]

"Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> All machines have WIN XP SP2. All have all the firewalls removed. All have the
> new drive mapped. The new drive has print/file sharing activated. I can SEE the
> drive on all the computers now. It lists the drive, all folders on it, and all
> files on the main drive itself. But I cannot open any folder nor access any file,
> even to do a directory. LAN is thru a LINKSYS 4 port router NR041. This is exact
> same way the old drive was set up that worked fine. Nothing else was changed.

If by "All have all the firewalls removed" you mean disabled, disabling the
firewall isn't sure fire to work.
As mentioned, if your using any third party software firewall you need to add the IP
of the machine to the trusted zone for each machine you want to allow access. From
what I take it as, you are using Windows firewall and not a third party software
firewall, in this case make sure you have the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection
Sharing (ICS) service started.

Click Start > Run, type in: services.msc and press Enter or click OK.
Scroll down Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS).
If it isn't started Right click on it and click Start in the popup menu.
Close out and try to access the drive from onother machine on the LAN.

>
>
>
> A Question: the jumpers. There are 2 modes shown on the drive: 15 and 16 head.
> How do I know which this one is? It came set for the 16 head, but I don't see any
> stat on the info sticker that tells. It is a Hitachi Deskstar model
> HDS722525VLAT80 ATA/IDE 200 GB P/N 14R9203.

Leave it as is, it's preset by the factory that "knows" what to set it at. The
only need you would have for it is if you were going to manually set the drive
manually in the BIOS instead of letting the BIOS detect it automatically. The
stickers aren't always specific to a single model drive and I'll venture to say yours
is 16 Heads, not 15.


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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



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> "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote in message
> news:OL%23E8vnxHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> "Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:469964e0$0$4930$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>> I just added a much-needed hard drive to my computer. It is seen by the computer,
>> but not on the LAN on any other computer and not when looking on the LAN of the
>> computer it is on!!! In the past, it was a simple thing of removing the Firewall
>> or non-sharing, or something like that. Not this time. I have checked all of
>> those things. It simply isn't there. But one I added before was OK when I
>> installed it. I took it out and put this one in the exact same place as the other,
>> smaller one, and it works fine, but won't show up on the LAN anywhere, which is
>> the main thing I got it for: to be used as storage on our server. I couldn't
>> find any help when Googling it. A couple of hours on that just gave me stuff about
>> sharing.
>> Where do I go from here?
>>
>> BTW, I didn't see any mention of your setting the machine up for the network.
>> Did you?:
>> Right click MyComputer.
>> In the popup menu click Properties > Computer Name tab > Change button, input the
>> machine LAN name and Network Domain or Workgroup name.
>> or
>> Right click MyNetwork Places.
>> In the popup menu click Properties.
>> Run either the New Connection Wizard or the New Setup Wizard.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
>> Conflicts start where information lacks.
>> http://basconotw.mvps.org/
>>
>> Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>> How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
>>
>>
>>
>>
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