Sharing files on removable drives

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A folder sharing question

If I setup 2 external USB drives that are identical both volume label and folders.
I next setup two folders for public sharing.
These drives are for off site rotation of backups.

If I remove the 1st drive through windows and replace it with the second drive
are the 2 folders still shared or will the sharing have to be setup again?

I would like to know if this will be a problem before I suggest it as a solution.

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What happened when you tried the above? I’m interested!

"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted

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I have not tried it yet, need to get a couple of drives first.

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Testing gave me some unexpected results.
Two external drives call them xxx & yyy.
created two folders on xxx and named them TEST01 & TEST02
I shared the two folders for everyone wth read/write access.
Went to second PC and coppied some files to both folders, everything is ok.

Asked windows to remove/eject drive xxx and inserted drive YYY
created two folders on YYY and named them TEST01 & TEST02
I shared the two folders for everyone wth read/write access.
Went to second PC and now the shares for first PC list the following.
The shares are: Test01, Test02, Test012 & Test022

It seems that Windows keeps the share names and if you try to share folders on diffetent
drives that have the same names Windows will change the share name.

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If the drives show in Windows as the same drive letter then the shares should return without you having to re-create them.
Delete the shares you set up.
Plug the drives in one at a time and make them the same drive letter.
Turn off indexing of the drives – don’t want to confuse Windows.
Create 2 shares on one drive. Test.
Swap drives and check if the shares are still available. If not, re-start the “server” service from “services.msc”.

cheers, Paul

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Paul
You are correct and thanks for helping.
I now have the process that I’m going to use.

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