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Question

Sharing network drive: Not able to modified External HDD wit

Mar 5, 2012 2:20PM PST

Dear friends,

I am facing a problem with my External HDD formatted in FAT32 file system.
I have an external HDD that is formatted in FAT32 file system and I want to share this drive on my network so that my other MAC user can access this external drive.

I have two MAC mini with OSX 10.6 and 10.7.3 and one MAC Book pro with 10.7.3. All are on same network able to see each other share Drives. But they are only able to access the Public folders of all the users and Internal HDD of all the MAC books. They are also able to see shared external HDD but no one is able to open that external drive over network. Only the MAC book with external drive is directly connected is able to open it and make file and folder in that.

I have also noticed one issue with this external HDD whenever I try to share this drive via file sharing option its user permission is not highlighted.

Could anyone help on this matter how could I access this drive from other MAC book.

Please revert on my post if any have any suggestion on my problem.

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Clarification Request
Why exactly
Mar 5, 2012 11:34PM PST

Why exactly is it formatted as FAT32 when it appears as if only Macs are accessing it?

Also, just FYI, FAT32 does not support permissions, so that's why you don't see any options showing up for it.

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Answer
Problem here is with the permissions that are
Mar 5, 2012 8:32PM PST

set for that External HDD.

Get Info on the drive from the Macbook (note the lack of capitalization) and change the permissions to allow all of the users to access it.

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Problem here is with the permissions
Mar 5, 2012 9:28PM PST

Hello I have tried this but my External HDD partition is FAT32 that's why Sharing Permission option via Get Info is not active.

Could you provide any other solution???

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As Jimmy questioned
Mar 6, 2012 3:13AM PST

why is the drive FAT32

Format it as Mac OS X extended(Journaled) and move on with life

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