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Mapping a drive to a W8 machine

I have been mapping drives within in house networks and over VPNs for over 10 years.

But Windows 8 has me stumped.  We are on a peer to peer network.  All machines are in the same workgroup.... called MSHOME.

We had a shared folder on an XP machine, let's call it TEST.  We have mapped a drive from our W7 machines to the XP machine and this has work for a couple of years.

We have a Lenovo X61s that we just did a clean install of W8 Pro.  We wanted the TEST folder to be on the Lenovo, and we would then retire the XP machine.

We copied the TEST folder to the Lenovo.

We want to share it with specific users.

If I share it with "Everyone"... no problem. I can map a drive to it.

If I delete "Everyone" and add specific users to the share.... I get "Windows cannot access..."

I have added the users to both machines,
I have turned off the firewall.

The only thing that works is making it assessible to EVERYONE which is not what we want.

Have researched and tried various ideas for 4 hours.

Fresh suggestions welcome.
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Add the everyone and assign full permission under sharing

Go to the security tab (on test folder share) and assign each user their respective rights
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Write this one off to gremlins or a full moon.  

Raks84, I appreciate the detailed suggestions.  That was pretty much in line with one of the things I tried on Friday before I gave up after spending several hours on this.

I left the computers on over the weekend... tried it again on Monday... and the mapping completed in about five seconds.

The machines were not rebooted over the weekend, no one touched them before I accessed them early Monday.

The main difference was what was supposed to work... didn't on Friday.  On Monday, things worked just the way I was used to them working.

No clue as to what the issue was.

Raks84 - for your detailed explaination, I am giving you the points.