kpl1949

Mmmh - I also have the same problem with sharing external NTFS formatted drives in a local network since years. I already concated several support forums - even commercial ones - in the past - so I think this is a very well known problem, discussed on serveral forums. But - as far as I know - up to now no one has found a solution for the problem. So I simply think that of some unknown reasons it is not possible to share external(!) USB drives in a network. I tried sharing with formatting the USB drives as FAT32 - then sharing works without any problems. I also tried all those tricky things like increasing some internal 'buffers' via registry settings etc etc - but no effect with NTFS drives. Sharing INTERNAL drives which are NTFS formatted does work !! Not so external USB drives. Maybe the external USB drive hardware/firmware is missing some necessary support for that !? Meanwhile I simply terminated trying to share external USB NTFS formatted drives in a local network.