File sharing

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Ed H

I can't 'unshare' my documents folder from other users (I'm the only
administrator account), I keep getting an error message that this folder is
in a shared folder??

Thank you,
Ed
Windows Vista Home Premium x64
 
Hi Ed,

What is the actual location of this folder? The error message is indicating
that a parent folder is being shared and this is being propagated to the
child folders. When open to this folder, click in the address bar, then
copy/paste this location into your response.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
I'm actually looking to keep an entire user profile private, an
administrator. But the folder I was referring to is 'Documents' under
'users/my name...
None have hade sharing chosen as far as I know.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 
Yes, there is some sort of error I do not want folders in my user account
shared with other users. But they are and I can't stop sharing because I
receive the message every time I try 'You could not stop sharing the
selected folder' because it's in a shared folder but it is not in a shared
folder, I want to fix this and stop sharing the folder (that I never set to
share in the first place.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 
C:\Users\Pfl04\Documents

sorry didn't see you asked for this. Hey Rick by the way, you've helped me
over on winxp big time in the past.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 
Okay:
C: is not shared
/Users IS shared
/pfl... is not shared
/Documents is not shared
/and so down the tree.

Hum, Can I safely make 'users' not shared and then I can not share my
personal user 'pfl...'?

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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD



:
 
I appreciate your help rick but it is some kind of bug going on. See: (
http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=3845 ) The entire tree
is now marked 'Not Shared' and I believe it was that way when I started
this, but if I right click on Documents, click share, and click to not share
I get a message saying I could not not share. the reason given is that the
folder is in a shared folder. And when I check on files in my user account
from another user account via explorer, I can open and edit those files.

I'm trying to reproduce the way I had it set up on xp. My user account was
not shared. Other users couldn't even look at my files never mind open them.
Can this be done in Vista? Is this just a problem with my computer?

Thanks again.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 
Hi Ed,

It's a problem with your machine. By default, user account folders in Vista
are not shared. It would have had to been manually enabled, either
intentionally or perhaps as the result of some file sharing (P2P) software.
There's no bug that enables unintentional sharing that I am aware of.

If a parent folder is shared and set for subfolders to inherit this, then
you can't disable sharing on the child folders. You'd have to start at the
top level folder and work your way down. This is why I wanted you to check
sharing on both the C:\Users and your <username> folder.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Okay I'll keep researching. All folders in the tree are marked that they're
not shared but they still are. Weird.

Thanks for everything.
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 
Hey Rick:

If your still there, I just found out that the 'Public' folder (which I have
shared for my network) is in the tree: C:/Users/ Public. Now is it true if
any folder in the tree is shared all the parent folders will be shared? I
think that's how I read it. Any way around that?
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Windows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz
4.00 GB RAM
300 GB HDD
 

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