Re: File sharing capabilities of XP Home
- From: "Steve Winograd [MVP]" <bcmaven@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:21:53 -0700
In article <7BAF4A34-A088-4BE7-BD3A-F62DE7011DC4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hop5uk <Hop5uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Up until recently i had one pc in my house which i had been adding hard disks
to in order to handle more and more storage space.Therefore one of the disks
has XP home edition on and the rest are just NTFS file system for storage.I
recently got another pc which came preinstalled with XP Home on it and i
wished to see all my drives from the older pc through filer sharing from the
new pc.I have a hardware firewall and so i was not that worried about
security and so i simply shared the 3 disks from the older pc so that i could
see them on the new pc.I thought this had worked perfectly until i realised
that i could not access certain folders ,in particular 'My documents' which
was the main point for doing this.I just get 'Access is Denied'.I have tried
in vain to find info on the internet but have had no luck.I believe this may
be a feature of home edition but there must still be some way of doing this
without having to upgrade to professional.Can anybody shed any light on this?
I'm sorry, but that's how Windows XP works, by default, when it's
installed on an NTFS disk partition. It blocks access to the Program
Files and Windows folders and to individual users' "My Documents"
folders within Documents and Settings.
You can share subfolders within those folders, e.g. you can share
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express" or "C:\Documents and
Settings\Username\Desktop" and access that folder from another
computer on the network.
If you have Windows XP Professional, you can disable simple file
sharing, which removes those sharing restrictions:
1. Open My Computer and click Tools | Folder Options | View.
2. Scroll to the end of the advanced settings.
3. Un-check "Use simple file sharing (recommended)".
If you have Windows XP Home Edition, that option isn't available The
safest thing is to share individual subfolders, as mentioned above, or
to move files into the Shared Documents folder, which is accessible
over the network.
You can re-install the operating system on a FAT or FAT32 disk
partition -- those disk formats don't have any sharing restrictions.
However, that would lose the benefits of NTFS, which is more reliable
and efficient and can use larger disks. You'd also need to re-install
all of your applications.
I've heard of three possible solutions for XP Home Edition on an NTFS
disk partition, but they're unsupported and undocumented. I haven't
tried them, and I don't know whether they're safe. If you want to try
them, back up your important data and create a system restore point
first:
1. Start Windows XP in "Safe Mode with Networking" (which temporarily
disables "Simple File Sharing"), share the desired folder(s), set the
permissions, and reboot normally.
2. Use the CACLS command, as described here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web/msg/6faf782867cba46f
3. Follow the procedure shown here:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)
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