Open disk access in windows 7. How to map a network drive

Rules for accessing your computer's resources in the file NTFS system regulated by special access control lists (ACL - Access Control List). By changing these rules for any specific user or entire groups, you can control the options available to them for using files located on computer media.

Instruction

You can share your Drive folders with friends or colleagues. Once they have access, they will see a copy shared folder on your Disk.

Changes you make to a shared folder (such as renaming, adding, or commenting on a file) will be visible to all participants. Information about the changes will also be displayed in their History.

Full access to a folder will allow members to modify your files and upload new ones. This way you can work on the same data together.

Note. You can create 50 public folders and accept an invitation to 50 other users' folders.

1. Folder access
   1. Access rights
2. Actions with shared folders
3. Comments on shared folders
4. Out of disk space

Folder access

Access rights

By sharing a folder, you can grant a member the following rights:

View only - permission to view and download files from the shared folder.

In this case, the participant will not be able to modify or add files either on the service page or using programs or applications. (The Yandex.Disk program does not sync changes that a restricted member has made to a shared folder on their computer.)

• Full access - permission to upload new files, modify files (rename, edit, publish) and delete them.

All members can comment on files in a shared folder, regardless of access rights.

Access to individual files and folders inside a public folder is not configurable. Folder members lose access to a file in a shared folder if its owner or a member with full access deletes the file or moves it to a private folder.

To see who has access to a folder, select the folder and top panel press .

In the same window you can:

• change access rights;
• deny access to members (a copy of your folder will be deleted from their Drives).

Do other people's folders take up space on my Disk?

No, a shared folder only takes up space on its owner's Disk. When you accept the invitation, the service will copy the entire folder to your Drive, but the space occupied by the folder will not be taken into account. Therefore, you can accept an invitation to access a folder of any size, regardless of the size of your Disk.

How to quickly navigate to a shared folder?

You can see the list of folders that you have opened or accessed on the Shared Folders page. Each shared folder is marked with an icon.

Actions with shared folders

• All members can rename and move the shared folder in their Drive. This does not affect the granted or received access rights.
• Each member can revoke access to a shared folder by deleting a copy of it from their Drive.
• The owner of the folder can delete it. To do this, turn off sharing the folder, then delete it and empty the Recycle Bin. In this case, all participants will lose access rights to the folder.
• A member with full access can view, download, modify , share, and delete files from the shared folder.
• A member with View Only access can view and download files from the shared folder.

  Note. If you want to but cannot change or delete a file from a shared folder, ask the owner of the shared folder for full access to the folder.

Comments on shared folders

Shared folder members can leave comments on the folder and files within it, reply to comments, and like or dislike . All participants can comment, regardless of access rights.

To leave a comment:

You can't edit your comment after it's posted, but you can delete it and write a new one.

The owner of a shared folder can delete the comments of all members and turn off comments on a file or folder. You cannot turn off comments for all files in a shared folder at once.

When a member of a public folder leaves a comment:

• You will see a pop-up notification in the upper right corner of the screen.
• Information about the comment will appear in the list of all notifications.
• If you have Yandex.Disk installed, you will see a message in the lower right corner of the screen.

To view all notifications, click the icon to the left of the account portrait.

I needed to somehow transfer data from a computer to a smartphone. And there was no wire. Nothing to do, had to reinvent the wheel. In general, I opened a shared access to one of the local drives of my computer and climbed there using an android smartphone. It is rather difficult to fully describe everything in one article, so I will focus on how to share a disk in the seven for now (in the eight it will be similar). The only thing that will need to be done that is not described in this article is to set a password to log in to the system. About how to do this (I mean, set a password), many articles have been written on the Internet.

So, let's open "my computer" and right-click on the disk to which we want to open access. Select the "Properties" item of the Context menu. A window will open in front of us, as in the screenshot below.

A window appears as shown in the screenshot below. These are permissions to access from the outside to this disk. In my case, it is necessary that information can be read from the partition and written to this disk. Therefore, check the box "Full access" and in all previous windows click the "OK" button

We have already organized local network and now you need to understand the question of how to share the D drive.

Perhaps someone will ask: why exactly to this disk? Yes, because, ironically, this is the most popular knot when setting up network connections, because it comes immediately after the system C. At least when setting up a network in accounting offices, this is definitely the most popular letter.

So, guys, in fact, a very similar topic has already been discussed in detail on this blog, only there the conversation was about organizing access to the folder:

Although to be honest, these processes are absolutely identical. But today some new nuances will be additionally considered. So let's slowly start the story.

It is also worth saying that all settings will be carried out on Windows example 10. But there is a complete analogy with earlier systems, such as Win 7 and 8.

So, first of all, we look for the "My Computer" section on the desktop:

In it we find the coveted disk and click on it with the right mouse button. In the opened context menu select "Properties":

Then follow the path "Access-Advanced setup":

In the next step, check the box next to "Share this folder":

In principle, the above settings are enough for all users of the local network to gain access to the drive with the letter D. But with this layout, all files stored on it, they can only view.

If you need to give the rights to edit or change the content, then you need to click on the "Permissions" button and specify the necessary permissions:

That's all, in fact, disk sharing is open. Similar actions should be done on all computers on the local network. Now let's talk about the nuances.

If suddenly all of the above actions did not lead to anything and there is still no access to it, then the first thing to do is to restart the computer. According to the author, this is the most effective technique in working with technology 😉

There are also cases when, when accessing a disk with public access, the system still asks for a password. Then you need to go back to the settings section, which is shown in the picture above, and select the "Add" item. Then click on "Advanced":

In the window that opens, click the "Search" button, after which in the list that appears, put the cursor on the line "All":

Now click on "OK" and see the result of the whole operation:

What else can be said about this topic? For example, you can take note of the fact that all the described actions and settings are very convenient to perform in the popular file manager Total Commander:

At least, much more convenient than in a regular operating room explorer Windows systems. And if we consider that already in we will connect network drive, then this is simply an indispensable program.

Well, okay, this topic on how to share the D drive is completed. Although, in fact, why exactly this letter pops up again, because the partitions on the hard drive

That's all for now. As always, ask your questions in the comments to the post. Whatever we can, we will definitely help.

Many users, when administering their home local network, are faced with the need to connect network drives. If you are also interested in this question, then this article should help you. Here we will talk about how to connect a network drive, as well as correctly open folder access for a network drive.

Step number 1. Open access to the folder (preparation of the first computer).

The first thing to do is share the folder that should be used as a network drive on another computer. This is not difficult to do, but there are a few details to be aware of.

First you need to properly configure the network. To do this, open the "Network and Sharing Center" and click on the link "Change advanced sharing settings" (screenshot below).

In the window that opens, you need to enable "Network discovery".

Also here you need to disable "Sharing with password protection" (if you do not need it).