Sharing "My Documents" folder in XP Pro

Posted: 10-31-2003, 04:48 PM

Kurt

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We have a 6-user LAN using the networking built in to XP.

On one of the computers, I want to share the My Documents
folder for the default user. Even though I have set the
folder up to be SHared, I am unable to access files in
the folder, and get an "access denied" message. I have
tried disabling the "simple file sharing" option on both
computers to no avail. How do I permit others to access
files in the My Documents folder for this computer? (I
am able to share files in My Documents on my own
computer).

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Kurt

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Sharing "My Documents" folder in XP Pro

Posted: 10-31-2003, 05:50 PM

An additional, critical point. Two of the computers in
our network still use Win 98. They are able to access the
My Documents folder on the XP computer; so it is only the
other computers running XP that have the problem
accessing the folder.

>-----Original Message-----
>We have a 6-user LAN using the networking built in to XP.
>
>On one of the computers, I want to share the My

Documents

>folder for the default user. Even though I have set the
>folder up to be SHared, I am unable to access files in
>the folder, and get an "access denied" message. I have
>tried disabling the "simple file sharing" option on both
>computers to no avail. How do I permit others to access
>files in the My Documents folder for this computer? (I
>am able to share files in My Documents on my own
>computer).
>.
>

Steve Winograd [MVP]

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Re: Sharing "My Documents" folder in XP Pro

Posted: 10-31-2003, 07:23 PM

In article <008f01c39fce$d1598490$a301280a@phx.gbl>, "Kurt"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We have a 6-user LAN using the networking built in to XP.
>
>On one of the computers, I want to share the My Documents
>folder for the default user. Even though I have set the
>folder up to be SHared, I am unable to access files in
>the folder, and get an "access denied" message. I have
>tried disabling the "simple file sharing" option on both
>computers to no avail. How do I permit others to access
>files in the My Documents folder for this computer? (I
>am able to share files in My Documents on my own
>computer).

Un-share the folder, make sure that simple file sharing is disabled,
then re-share the folder.
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