Acessing my personal files on a remote computer

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Hi,

i have recently netowrked my two Windows XP Home Edition computers to each
other, but have a question.

How can i access my personal documents on the remote computer from the one i
am setting at now? By personal documents i mean the files located in
\Docuemnts and Settings\<username>\. I have set the HDD on the remote
computer to be shared on the network. On my local system computer i have
mapped the remote computers HDD (Drive C) to my local one as Drive L. When
mapping the drive i also click on the "Connect as a different user" text and
entered the unsername and password that i use to login to the remote
computer. I also ticked the "Rconnect at logon" checkbox. However after doing
all this if i go to L:\Documents and Settings\<my username> in Windows
Explorer or My Computer I get the following error message "L:\Documents and
Settings\<my username> is not accessible Access is Denied".

I am set as an administrator on both computers. I also used this same method
when connecting a Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Me computer, and was
able to access my documents stored on the remote computer when doing this
with the Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Me computers.

As i could do it with a Windows XP Home Edition and one that was older than
Windows XP, i'm sure this can be done between two Windows XP Home Edition
computers.

Am i doing anything wrong? How would i go about getting this to work?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Salem
 
Hi,

i have recently netowrked my two Windows XP Home Edition computers to each
other, but have a question.

How can i access my personal documents on the remote computer from the one i
am setting at now? By personal documents i mean the files located in
\Docuemnts and Settings\<username>\. I have set the HDD on the remote
computer to be shared on the network. On my local system computer i have
mapped the remote computers HDD (Drive C) to my local one as Drive L. When
mapping the drive i also click on the "Connect as a different user" text and
entered the unsername and password that i use to login to the remote
computer. I also ticked the "Rconnect at logon" checkbox. However after doing
all this if i go to L:\Documents and Settings\<my username> in Windows
Explorer or My Computer I get the following error message "L:\Documents and
Settings\<my username> is not accessible Access is Denied".

I am set as an administrator on both computers. I also used this same method
when connecting a Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Me computer, and was
able to access my documents stored on the remote computer when doing this
with the Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Me computers.

As i could do it with a Windows XP Home Edition and one that was older than
Windows XP, i'm sure this can be done between two Windows XP Home Edition
computers.

Am i doing anything wrong? How would i go about getting this to work?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Salem
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Salem,

Unfortunately, you're incorrect. If the server is running XP Home, you'll only
have Guest access, which won't give you access to any of "My Documents", other
than "All Users".

Did you access the XP Home computer from the ME computer? Or just vice versa?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
 
I was previously able to access the Windows XP Home computer from Windows Me
and could also access the Windows Me one from the computer running XP
 
I was previously able to access the Windows XP Home computer from Windows Me
and could also access the Windows Me one from the computer running XP
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Were you actually able to access individual files under "My Documents" (and not
under "All Users") on a Windows XP HE server, from another computer? With Guest
access to a Windows server, the "My Documents" folder structure (with the
exception of "All Users") simply isn't accessible thru the network. With Simple
File Sharing, you can't give Guest access to a personal storage space.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html#Guest>

Is it possible that you tweaked XP Home, and / or temporarily disabled Simple
File Sharing?
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/advanced-file-sharing-tweaks-in.html>
 
Yes i was deffinately access my personal file (C:\Documents And
Settings\<username>) on the Windows XP Home computer from the Windows Me one.

"Is it possible that you tweaked XP Home, and / or temporarily disabled Simple
File Sharing?"

By this do you mean on the previous network setup between the XP Home and Me
computers or the current one between two XP Home Computers?

To my knowledge XP Home was not tweaked (on both network setups). Not sure
about the disabling of Simple File Sharing though. where would i find this?

Salem
 
Yes i was deffinately access my personal file (C:\Documents And
Settings\<username>) on the Windows XP Home computer from the Windows Me one.

"Is it possible that you tweaked XP Home, and / or temporarily disabled Simple
File Sharing?"

By this do you mean on the previous network setup between the XP Home and Me
computers or the current one between two XP Home Computers?

To my knowledge XP Home was not tweaked (on both network setups). Not sure
about the disabling of Simple File Sharing though. where would i find this?

Salem
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Is it possible that you previously tweaked XP Home, and / or temporarily
disabled Simple File Sharing, in your network of XP Home / ME? Read these
articles:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/advanced-file-sharing-tweaks-in.html>
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
 
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