Terrance J. Whalen

Quick update. Asked Copilot about this. It asked if I was opening the drive as removable media; I was. I unchecked this option in Favorites, now sharing works. Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 8:31 PM, Terrance J. Whalentjmwhalen@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I tried several disks that were encrypted on a W7 PC, mounting them on a W11 PC and creating shares to the data. No PC could access them. I tried both file containers and partition containers. In all cases, moving...

I tried several disks that were encrypted on a W7 PC, mounting them on a W11 PC and creating shares to the data. No PC could access them. I tried both file containers and partition containers. In all cases, moving the USB cable from the W11 to a W7 PC and repeating the procedure produced successful sharing. I also tried something else. I connected a disk containing encrypted file containers to a W7 PC. I shared the directory containing the containers, and accessed one of the unmounted file containers...

Thank you so much for looking into this. So, are you saying that from a W11PC, you're mounting remotely over your LAN, a VC volume that resides on a non-W10,11 PC? I tried that but I can't create a share of the unmounted drive on my W7 because there's no file system.. Am I misunderstanding what you did?

I have a network with two Windows 11 PCs, and a couple Windows 7 PCs. I'm trying to store my data on an external drive containing a single encrypted (Veracrypt) partition on one of the Win11 PCs. From the other computers, I am able to see the list of shares, but I get the "permission denied" message when I click on them. I can access any share that is for an unencrypted data. If I move the encrypted drive to one of the windows 7 computers, and mount it, all shares I create are accessable, including...