Permissions Noob

easyrider · 29 Jul 2015 at 00:27

I have a Drive on my download box (win 8.1) that I want to share with my main PC (win 8.1)

I have successfully mapped the drive on the main PC but I cannot write to it.

I have remote desktopped to the download box and looked at chnaging the permissions but for the life of me I can't seem to work it.

How do I change the permissions of the shared drive in order for me to read and write and delete stuff from the mapped drive on the main PC?

These are the only two PC's not on the domain.

In server 2012 I just use the permissions wizard.

EDIT: the share tab is greyed out my only choice is advanced sharing. Both PC are on the same homegroup.

spoffle · 29 Jul 2015 at 00:45

Doing it like that should work. You don't actually need full permissions, I was just being lazy as it only takes one click there to check both boxes.

easyrider · 29 Jul 2015 at 00:50

But I don't want everyone to be able to connect to it...

Just want

mainpc\me

to access

downloadbox\me

bremen1874 · 29 Jul 2015 at 01:04

So add yourself under 'Group or user names:' on both machines and grant the permissions as required.

spoffle · 29 Jul 2015 at 01:36

That sounds like a secret stash

easyrider · 29 Jul 2015 at 01:38

bremen1874 said:
So add yourself under 'Group or user names:' on both machines and grant the permissions as required.

when I add myself I don't appear when I type in

mainpc\me in the permissions on the download box. :mad:

NightSt@lk3r · 29 Jul 2015 at 01:56

The way i do it is use the same Windows user account name and password on both computers then when i go to share the drive i remove "Everyone" from the Group or usernames box and just add my windows user account with full permissions, this way you don't even have to log in to the share with a username and password from your other pc as the username and password of the windows account is the same.