Re: sharing My Documents on XP Home

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Paul Pedersen wrote:
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23v3qjvVJIHA.4584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Paul Pedersen wrote:
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?
The operating system is behaving as designed. There is nothing else wrong.


I don't suppose you'd care to elaborate?

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.


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