# Network Share question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/network-share-question/295042>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 17, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/network-share-question/295042 "2005-03-17T20:00:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![caphis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/network-share-question/295042/1 "2005-03-17T20:00:59Z")

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I’ve got 2 computers running on my home network, both are using Windows XP (Home) with SP2 and are connected to a (wireless) router.

On my desktop computer, I’ve got 2 hard drives. One of them, the second one that holds nothing but video, I want to be able to access from my laptop over the network. Using the “Sharing” tab in properties, I set it up to share the folder over the network, and lo and behold, from my laptop, it shows up in Network Places. I can open the folder (which was shared as the root of the drive in question), traverse folders within, etc. The problem is, whenever I try to copy or open any file inside, I get an Access Denied error.

Did I miss some setting or option somewhere? I can traverse folders down as far as I can go, but I can’t open any actual files.

Thanks in advance!