Setting Permissions in XP Home

[Richard Jarvis]

Dear all,

I have set up my home network fine and shared a connection
fine.

For my problem let me explain my setup a bit. I have an XP
Home machine with folders I would like to share. It also
has diffent user accounts to login with. I have shared my
personal docs (call it account1.Jarvis) and then have
shared the rest of the families (account2.Jarvis,
account3.Jarvis and account4.Jarvis). From my wireless
laptop (running Win2k Pro) I have the username 'account1
Jarvis' with a space instead of the full stop (period for
the Americans). I can access Account1.Jarvis documents
that I have shared but not any of the other accounts. They
have all been shared but on the Win2k laptop it says I do
not have permission. I looked in the knowledge base of how
to disable simplified file sharing but it said you coud
only do that in WinXP Pro! Can I do this somehow in Home
Ed? How can I get access to the docs!!!!?!?!?!

Thanks in advance,

Richard Jarvis

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

Hi, Richard -

I'm afraid simple file sharing cannot be disabled in XP
Home. The most painless way to do what you're trying to
do would be to upgrade the machine to XP Professional -
but that will cost a bit ;-)

Failing that, placing the documents into your shared
documents folder is about the only option available.

Sorry I didn't have better news -

 

[Guest]

No reason that I can't access them tho is there? I should
be able to regardless of my Win2k machine user, no?

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

With simple file sharing, all users accessing shared
resources do so through the host machine's Guest
account. That's gonna limit you to documents in the
machine's 'shared documents' folder but the Win2k box
should be able to access that folder and any subfolders
from the Win2k machine.

I'd take another look at share permissions, I think. The
Win2k machine should be able to access files in the XP
machine's 'shared documents' folder unless that
permission has been restricted. Documents moved into
that area should inherit the permissions of the parent
folder.

Hope this helps a little -