Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit loses share on external HD after shutdown/reboot

[MasterVBGuru]

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?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Lawrence]

Hello 

By any chance when you mapped the drive did you check the box that says reconnect at log in?

[MasterVBGuru]

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.

Kevin

[Joe_S]

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.

Joe