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Making entire drives reachable

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I have a media center on my home network with which i would like to be able to broadcast the drives themselves, and not just individual folders, on my home network, mainly for backup to my file server, but also if any other computer would like to connect to it to use the media. I have tried to share the main media drive as well as a smaller media drive on my homegroup and network, and the computers can see them, but when trying to connect, it times out and asked if i wanted to diagnose the problem. The only folder on the computer that i was able to broadcast was a folder in Documents on the C Drive. Is there a special trick for the other internal drives to be seen over the network, or is this just not possible?

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Hawkeye22 said:
I think the only way to show an entire drive is through admin shares. I wouldn't advise it for use in a media server as the clients will have total access to your drive and can therefore do damage to the OS.

http://blog.hansmelis.be/2009/09/06/administrative-shar...


Great, thanks for the link, i'll give that a shot and see what happens. In my house,my family are very computer illiterate, they know how to open up windows explorer, but they don't know where i keep my files since i have it laid out a certain way. This is only going to be a private thing though, so i'll be monitoring it constantly. I'm not worried about anyone messing with it.
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It's not in the link. You only need to create a standard user account. If it doesn't work, you may need to make it an admin account. This seems plausable since it is an admin share. I've only ever used admin shares from admin accounts since the purpose of admin shares is to be able to manage a file system (disk) remotely on a LAN, not to give this access to the public.
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