[gbvoris]

All of my computers can access each other without a problem, except that no one can access the two usb drives over the lan ( except the desktop they are connected to.
The whole idea was to be able to play my music from a laptop in the other room or at my Dad's house. I can if I move the data to an internal drive.
What am I missing???

 

[johnpost]

what operating system are you using?

in windows you need to specify that each drive is to be shared.

click on

my computer

highlight the drive you want to share, right click properties
and specify how you want it to be shared

usb drives will appear when they are plugged in and
turned on. you need to specify its properties each time
the computer or they are turned on.

 

[gbvoris]

XP Pro
I've done the shareing bit. (All of my computers can access each other without a problem).

 

[Bob Cerelli]

"All of my computers can access each other without a problem"

So they can access other shares but just not the shared USB drive?

What error message do you get?
Do you see the usb shares when you browse the network?

 

[gbvoris]

Bob The laptops both can get full read write to the internal drives. the can see the usb drives as shared. error is
\\Voris-main\Black(H) is not accessible.
Not enough server storage is available to process this command.

Of course if the other drive is accessed the name changes. The only thing I've seen is relavent to NT4 and refers to page file

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Try a registry edit

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ Memory Management

Set the PagedPoolSize to 0

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The other solution I've see this is:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Increase the IRPStackSize value by at least three.

 

[gbvoris]

PagePoolSize is "0"

However when I search for "IRPStackSize" - there is nothing. I had assumed that this was because I am using XP and not NT 4 ( Ifound references to this in NT 4 forums not XP?

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Do you have Norton by any chance?

 

[gbvoris]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I inserted the value, tried 15 and then 20. No luck.
Then 30

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Which computer are you making the changes on?

 

[gbvoris]

The "main" or Server

 

[gbvoris]

tried an entry of 11 on the laptop with no effect

 

[gbvoris]

OK. Now I tried a reboot and the laptop can see the drive. Where should i leave the value set?

 

[gbvoris]

As this has remained solved by resetting IRPStackSize and (the key I didn't see in Microsoft) was to then do a full reboot, not just restart. Never really understood the difference?!
I'm marking this as solved. Thanks for the help.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Glad that solution worked and thanks for posting back