[transmission1]

Ok.. this problem's driving me nuts! Why is it that on my Windows XP Professional machine, I can share a CD-ROM drive but can't access it from any other machine on my network without getting an "access denied" message, yet I can share portions of my harddrive with authenticated users (even at root level if I wish). Any ideas? On my other Win 2000 box this works fine by creating a share based on authenticated network users but on XP I can't seem to find the same sort of info or way of chaging this in XP. Anyone else had this problem.

Many thanks,

[lee_frost]

Just a couple of simple things for you to check.

Go into folder options in control panel and make sure you have SIMPLE FILE SHARING DISABLED. For a start.

Then goto to the sharing and security option on your CD Drive. Select
SHARED AS then PERMISSIONS then ADD then ADVANCED and FIND NOW hopefully this will display a list of users you can grant permission to.

Dunno if this was any help

Cheers Lee.

[transmission1]

Thanks for that Lee. I'll give it a try when I get home from work and let you know. I think that "everyone" is already in the share on the CD-ROM drive but maybe if add the names of the individual users it will start working (both user names are the same on both machines so they authenticate correctly with other drive shares). Strange really because my Win2K box shares the CD Drives perfectly with just "everyone" in the security settings! Smile.. it's Microsoft!