Saving files to other user accounts?

[Keith]

Hello. I recently purchased a new HP Media Center PC with Vista Home Premium
installed. I promptly went in and created two admin accounts
(password-protected) one for me, one for the wife, which may or may not be
advisable, I know), and separate accounts for four of our children (these
were set-up as standard, password-protected accounts).

I was logged into my account (admin) and helping my son with a Word document
for one of his class projects. I tried saving the document to the Documents
folder in his account, and got a message saying I wasn't authorized. If I'm
logged in to an account with admin rights, I didn't think that would be a
problem. At least that's how it worked with XP.

What am I doing wrong? Can anyone suggest a fix? Is this a matter of
tweaking a setting? Thanks.

--Keith
postler at comcast dot net

 

[Keith]

But is what I asked possible?

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Yeah, it's possible, if you don't mind possibly mucking up the rights to
everyone's files and potentially reinstalling Vista to fix the mess.

Not recommended. Use the Public folders - that's what they're there for.

 

[JohnDavid]

Richard, question for you on your reply.
I've done what Keith was asking about (by attempting to access the other
users files via 'C:\Users\otheruser', responding to the prompt stating I
didn't have access, then allowing Vista to change permissions, giving me full
access. I'll also mention, that I subsequently removed that access by
modifying the permissions 'manually'.

What was I risking by doing that? Is this a known issue with Vista?
Thanks.

Yeah, it's possible, if you don't mind possibly mucking up the rights to
everyone's files and potentially reinstalling Vista to fix the mess.

Not recommended. Use the Public folders - that's what they're there for.

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But is what I asked possible?