I have a in residental(home) wireless network. There are 2 computers on the network. One is a XP Desktop system with Service pack 3 LAN attached to the wireless router. The second system is a laptop running Win 7 Home Premium 32 bit connected to the network wirelessly. It has a 110GB harddrive(C:). I have the C: drive shared so I can see every thing from the desktop except one folder, where I cannot see all the subfolders. The size of the parent folder on the Win 7 is 6.54GB(7,023,832,350 bytes) with 9,122 Files, 696 Folders. I cannot see about 25 folders(in the middle of the alphabet). I'm thinking I have to split the folder because it is to large, but before I do that I wanted to check with the experts. Any suggestions and help?? John T

Hi John T. Firstly it isn't a good idea to share the system drive from the ROOT, as you have done, it opens one up to security risks and also to permossions problems. Also since the C: Drive is the system drive there are files and folders that you have no need to access across a network, such as the Windows Folder and it's sub-folders & the Programs Folder and it's sub-folders. If you want to access your User Data from the Win 7 system on the Win XP desktop then you only need to share the C:\Users folder. As you don't name the folder that is giving your problems, it is hard to know whether that is actually a system folder, or a User Folder. IF it is a System Folder then you must not split the folder, because if you move files from a system folder it is likely that Windows will stop working. Most problems with accessing files and folders over a network relate to the permissions given to them by Windows, and have nothing to do with the size of the folder or files. Please can you be a bit more specific about which folder is causing the problems, give it's name and path, and what you are trying to access from the XP System on the Win 7 System. Jonathan. Jonathan R. Portwood. PQSA Services "Assisting NGO's with IT Services". My System: Dell Vostro 1700 Notebook, 4Gb RAM, Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.50GHz), 2x Seagate Momentus 500Gb HDD (7,200rpm SATA-II)nVidia GeForce 8600M GT with 256Mb VRAM. Windows 7 Professional x64.

Jonathan, Thank you very much for your response. Sorry I was not more specific. This is a user data folder that I am trying to see on the WIN 7 C:drive system from the XP system and I have it mapped as a B drive. The Network path is \\JOHNSLAPTOP\$John\BSA on laptop. I just had the Owner (myself) in the shared list. Since your append I added "Everyone" in the permission list to see if that would help and it did not. I did not reboot the systems but I did disconnected and mapped it again, and even in the list of folder as I was mapping it ,,all the folder are not visable. By the way when I had two XP systems the shring was not a problem. I updated the laptop to win 7 back in August of 2010. If screen images would help I can send them.

Hi, Try to edit the following registry value in your Windows XP before you backup registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation Value Type: DWORD Value Data: 1 Then check what the result is. Alex ZhaoPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi, I made the change you reccommended. The Value Data was a 0 and I made it 1. Value type was already a DWORD. Checked the results and there was no change. I then rebooted both systems and there was no change. Do you think that this is an XP problem or Win 7 problem. Should I open a formal problem? Help!! John