No Sharing tab on Windows 2003

windows-server-2003 shared-directory fileshare
crizCraig picture crizCraig · Jul 14, 2009 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I can't see the sharing tab within any drive or folder properties on Windows 2003. I've looked here:

http://forums.tweakguides.com/showthread.php?t=5771

However, there's no option to disable simple sharing in the Folder options and the services they recommend starting (Computer Browser, Network Connections, Server, and Workstation) don't do the trick. Any ideas?

Answer

lippo picture lippo · Apr 16, 2014

Same problem...

I found this helpful blog article, that describes the solution of crizCraig:

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And for me it was also necessery to restart the explorer.exe. Kill the process with task manager and start it again:

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