Network Shares of Removable Drives Disappear (Windows)

Question

(Sorry if this sounds clumsy, I'm not always sure about the English terms for this)

I have two removable drives. I can set the access rights so that they can be shared and used from another network computer, but when I start my main computer the next time and the drives are switched off, they seem to lose the share settings and I have to set the access rights again.

Is there a way to prevent this and to automatically share a complete drive so that it can be accessed across the network as soon as it is switched on the next time?

-Michael

Answer 1

The long and the short of it is "No"... I had the same issue with a removable drive and there's not a way to do it. You CAN however, write a small service that will share the drive automatically on boot-up. Short of that, Windows just simply will not re-share a removable drive after reboot.

~md5sum~