When Simple File Sharing is disabled, you may discover,
after dragging a file from your My Documents folder into
the Shared Documents folder, that other users are unable
to access that file. This result will occur if the
following conditions apply:
The drive that contains the Documents And Settings folder
is formatted using the NTFS file system.
You've made your entire user profile private (as you were
prompted to do when you added a password to your
account).
You've disabled Simple File Sharing.
You've created a group of files (or a subfolder) in your
My Documents, My Music, or My Pictures folder, and you
want to share those files with other users by dragging
them to the Shared Documents folder.
Because both locations are on the same NTFS-formatted
drive, dragging any file or folder from your user profile
to the Shared Documents folder moves the selected object
without making any changes to its access control list. As
a result, other users can see the icon for the file or
folder but are greeted with an "access denied" error
message when they double-click it. Frustrating, isn't it?
The solution to this dilemma is simple. If you've
disabled Simple File Sharing, never move a file from your
personal profile to a shared location. Instead, get in
the habit of copying the file. The new copy inherits the
permissions from the destination folder (Shared
Documents), and is therefore available to every user.
After copying the file or folder, you can safely delete
the original from your private folder.
Another common cause of permission problems has an
equally simple solution. After you add a user account to
a group that has been assigned permissions for a file or
folder, the user must log off and log back on to have
access to the files.
Pasted from MS XP Inside Out CD
-David
