Re: sharing files and folders by one user on 2 computers

Yes, and that's the expected behaviour of a shared folder or file. It
doesn't move from one computer to the other, it stays on the computer it was
created on. The other computer in the network can access the folder or file
but when it does it accesses it from the original location. Windows
Networking does not move files from one PC to another.

If you're looking for something that will allow a shared folder or shared
files to replicate from one computer to another (there will be a folder on
each PC, with the files in that folder residing on both PCs) then you need
something like the Sync Toy from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&DisplayLang=en

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"JL" <JL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AC5EC1D8-49D5-4946-BD4F-821B01F29DB9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Could anybody help me step by step on how to share files? Or tell me where
to find some litterature I can understand. In all possible "help", it is
explained how to share a file in a computer with several users.

My problem is to share files on two computers connected in network through
a
router, and I am the only user. I already created my folders in both
computers, went to "sharing and security" and checked "share this folder
on
the network...." and "allow network to change my file" etc... I even went
to
Computer management, but of course I am the administrator, and there is
nothing I can succeed to do. My folders stubbornly stay on the computer
where
they were created.

Someone already helped me for some files, but I have nothing in written,
and
I just cannot. It didn't seem so difficult yet!

I HOPE someone can help me once for all solve this problem.

Thanks a lot


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