Out of Luck? Shared Documents not marked ``shared'' XP

[Ron Hardin]

The Shared Documents folder (named, for some reason,
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
(and not ``Shared Documents'')

is no longer marked shared, so I can't access it.

To make it shared, it says to move it into the shared documents
folder. I have found no alternative method in clicking around.

So, how do you make the shared documents folder shared if it's
not shared?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents
or
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents

is the Shared Documents folder. It gets its name from the desktop.ini
file.

The desktop.ini file may be missing or messed up.

Detailed instructions here on how to fix or create a desktop.ini file for
the Shared Documents folder...
http://computers.douglasthrift.net/winxpfaq/#faq3_shared_documents

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[Ron Hardin]

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents
or
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents

is the Shared Documents folder. It gets its name from the desktop.ini
file.

The desktop.ini file may be missing or messed up.

Detailed instructions here on how to fix or create a desktop.ini file for
the Shared Documents folder...
http://computers.douglasthrift.net/winxpfaq/#faq3_shared_documents

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That clears up the Documents vs Shared Documents mystery but
doesn't help. The Shared Documents name comes from a file
within the folder.

But I can't access within the folder! so it just uses the
real name, Documents.

But for the same reason, I couldn't replace the file either,
even if it were missing or screwed up; which probably it is not.

It's that it's not my folder and it's not sharing, I think.

 

[Ron Hardin]

The question is, how do they mark internally that a folder is shared?

That property has been lost by the folder that you move things into
to share them.

And you can't move it into itself to change it.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents should be shared by default.
You cannot make that folder private. Right click the C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Documents folder | Properties | Sharing tab

How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

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[Ron Hardin]

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents should be shared by default.
You cannot make that folder private. Right click the C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Documents folder | Properties | Sharing tab

How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

I diddled around a while, getting the X-zinger audio for inaccessible, and then
it started being accessible again when clicked ``virus scan'' on it.

Now everything works again.

Nothing new has been stored in it since the day it arrived from the factory.

Some other pointer must have been hosed up that the virus scan cleared.

The command prompt can also cd to it now, which it couldn't before.

Well, if it happens to you, try virus scanning it to knock it off dead center.

I bet it was an unfinished operation from the LAN.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I bet it was an unfinished operation from the LAN.

10 bucks says that you had a virus.

Anyway, glad you got it fixed. ;-)

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