I recently purcahsed a 2TB My Book Essential drive which I share on my home network running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Full access is assigned to “Everyone”. Everything works fine as long as I don’t shutdown or reboot.
If I restart the machine (or shutdown and power back up), the network share is lost. When I click on the properties of the drive and go to the Sharing tab, it is marked as “Not Shared” and I have to share it out and assign permissions to Everyone again.
I always use the (true) local Administrator account on this box. Why does the WD My Book keep losing its network share on a warm and cold reboot?
It doesn’t apply here because I am SHARING the drive from this machine (i.e. it’s physically attacfhed via USB).
If I move the drive over to my Dell PC (which is running Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit) and share it out from there, I can reboot 1000 times and it NEVER loses its share.
Everytime I reboot the 64-bit machine and login as Adminhistrator (as I always do), the Share is gone (as are the permissions) and I have to re-assign it again.
Look at the ownership on the drive it’s in with sharing. sharing and networking can be a royal pain. What security software you using? Some of that can be troublesome too.
