Re: Sharing Windows and Program Files folders

I missed the fact that you have XP Home. This won't work with Home.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Kerry Brown wrote:
I don't know if this will work with win9x machines or just XP. Use
the c$ hidden administrative share. You need to use the same account
and password as on the machine you want to access. The account must
be an administrator account. In other words your wife must log on to
her machine with your account and password. She could then access
your machine through the following share \\computername\c$ Win9x
doesn't have administrative shares so it won't work for an XP machine
to access a win9x machine but as you say you can already do that. I'm
not sure if a win9x machine can authenticate properly to a XP machine
for this to work but it's worth a try.

Lindsay Graham wrote:
Thanks, Malke -- I'll try your suggestion for the particular example
that I gave.

I don't want to go into all the reasons here, but I actually want to
share all folders, and I'm quite happy to accept the risks that may
entail.
Does anyone have a solution that will enable this to be done?


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lindsay Graham wrote:

I use WinXP Home SP2. I want to be able to share ALL folders (not
just those that Microsoft thinks I should) across a small home
network which
comprises XP and 98SE computers. One simple example of why I want
this is so that my wife can save a file to the Desktop of my XP
computer (which was easy to do when I used a Win98 computer).

Research suggests that I should be able to do this by booting the
XP computer in Safe Mode and then sharing the relevant folders. But
I've done
that (and at the WinXP end, it appeared to share successfully). But
from the Win98 computer, I still cannot access the desired XP
folders. Any ideas on how I can do this?

PS I'm finding Microsoft's constraints according to how it thinks
we should operate increasingly frustrating!!


This is by design. Try creating a folder on the root of one of your
hard drives (C: if you only have one hard drive) and share it. Now
make a shortcut to it on your desktop. Your wife can save files
there. It would be extremely foolish to share Program Files and/or
the Windows folder. That is just asking for trouble.

As for your "PS", there are other operating systems. Try one.

Malke
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