Help with network drive mapping

[jasper1605]

Hey all,

Beginner level question but I can't figure this out. I've got my sig rig as a 24/7 file storage computer (in addition to all the workhorse things I do with it...) and I'm trying to map my network drive out to my two Surface Pro 6s so I can have all the data centralized to this main PC (largely so my wife can organize family pics easier and she hates going upstairs to do it lol). Main PC is Windows 10 education and tablets are both Win10 Pro. I use Stablebit drivepool to create a 36tb pool for all our movies and pictures and misc stuff. I have turned all required sharing permissions on including network discovery, folder sharing, encryption, and turned off password required. I basically followed all steps on https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-share-drives-windows-pc,36936.html to the letter. On the tablets I map the drive through the computer tab and put \\Jaspermain\I (which is the drive name as shared from the main pc and shows the network location as such). It maps but then immediately says I do not have permission to access this drive and contact my network administrator. Well, I've consulted with myself and can't think of anything else to do.

I even try finding it through just the browse option but nothing ever shows up, which I'm confused by since I have the main pc set to discoverable on the network.

Is it stablebit causing the issue and not allowing the drivepool to be shared? Open to all suggestions.

 

[Solaris17]

It sounds like its stablebit.

On the share itself what are you security tabs set like?

EDIT:: Also have you made sure that the network profile is set to private not public? People miss that a lot. hitting "Yes" when you connect a PC to a network does wonders for your firewall rules. and by default sharing does not work under public profile.

 

[jasper1605]

Security on the share only has an everyone profile with full access.
I did just verify that my network is private. I tried following some other guides from a Microsoft forum, will update if that worked or not

 

[newtekie1]

Security on the share only has an everyone profile with full access.
I did just verify that my network is private. I tried following some other guides from a Microsoft forum, will update if that worked or not

You might also have to go to the security tab in the properties and add everyone with full control as well.

Also, if the "server" computer you are saring the files from doesn't have a password, you won't be able to access the share unless you edit the group policy to allow sharing without a password.

 

[jasper1605]

Everything securities wise has an everyone profile with full control.

And my 'faux-server' does not have a password but I believe I have the box checked that allows for passwordless sharing.

I truly do not understand where I went wrong since I was able to share my NAS without issue when I had that up and running.

Just for kicks, I tried sharing my boot drive since it's not part of the stablebit drivepool and that wouldn't share either. I did discover that the tablet was set to public so I switched it to private but sadly no dice in making the shares work. I am now trying to share individual folders from the drive instead of the drive as a whole but had to go to work so will update if that meets with success or not later.

Update: I was able to at least connect to individual folders within the main drive after also enabling sharing on them following the exact same protocol for sharing the whole drive. No idea why individual folders work but the whole drive won't but thankfully the wifey only needs 1 folder anyhow. Me on the other hand.... I'm gonna have a lot of folders to share haha.