Hi,
I understand that you are unable to open the 'Shared Documents' folder and
the access is denied.
This sounds like a file ownership issue related to NTFS. Note, file
ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. How you resolve
it depends upon which version of XP you are running.
If you are running Windows XP-Home:
You can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot the system, start
hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the options is Safe
Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's password.
This is not your administrator account, rather it is the machine's
administrator account for which users are asked to create password during
setup.
If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press
enter.
Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to
the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect
it and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a
change, move on to the next step.
Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security
tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was
logged on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click
apply and ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in
the name of the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for
everything in the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following
selection:
"Replace owner on sub containers and objects," select it as well.
Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when
you log back on as that user.
If you are running Windows XP-Professional
If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to
administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select folder
Options, go to the View tab and be sure "Use Simple File Sharing" is not
selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok.
If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user,
right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click
Advanced, go to the Owner tab, select the user you wish to have access, at
the bottom of the box, you should see a check box for "Replace owner on sub
containers and objects,"
Place a check in the box and click apply and ok.
The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the
folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again,
right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be
sure the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the
user name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary
permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply
and ok.
That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even
in a limited account.
This should enable to access the shared documents folder without the error
message.
Thank you,
Rashmi
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| The Shared documents folder (the folder where all the
| users on my computer can access files) isn't working,
| when i try to open it says that it's not acessible, and
| that access is denied
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| HELP ME PLZ!
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