sharing My Documents on XP Home

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Paul Pedersen

I have been asked to share a limited user's My Documents folder over a
network with Windows XP Home. (Using All Users\Documents isn't good enough,
I don't know why.)

The limited user is unable to do that (the sharing option is grayed out). If
I sign in as admin and share the folder, any admin on that computer can
access the folder, but no limited user can (access denied). No user over the
network can access it. They can see it, but access is denied.

Is this a limitation of XP Home, or is something else going wrong?
 
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Malke

Paul said:
I have been asked to share a limited user's My Documents folder over a
network with Windows XP Home. (Using All Users\Documents isn't good enough,
I don't know why.)

The limited user is unable to do that (the sharing option is grayed out). If
I sign in as admin and share the folder, any admin on that computer can
access the folder, but no limited user can (access denied). No user over the
network can access it. They can see it, but access is denied.

Is this a limitation of XP Home, or is something else going wrong?
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The operating system is behaving as designed. There is nothing else wrong.



Malke
 
M

Malke

Paul said:
I don't suppose you'd care to elaborate?
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XP Home was not designed to share user's home directories (My Documents)
although you can share child directories. XP Home was not designed for
fine-grained permissions and user-based restrictions. Your client (or
friend or whoever) should either use All Users\Documents or upgrade to
XP Pro.


Malke
 
P

Paul Pedersen

Malke said:
XP Home was not designed to share user's home directories (My Documents)
although you can share child directories. XP Home was not designed for
fine-grained permissions and user-based restrictions. Your client (or
friend or whoever) should either use All Users\Documents or upgrade to XP
Pro.


Malke
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Thanks.

I originally recommended buying a computer with an absolute minimum of 512MB
RAM, 80GB disk, and XP Pro. But the one with 256MB, 40GB disk, and XP Home
was **cheaper**. Yeah, right.
 

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