Re: Access to the Windows folder on a mapped drive

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On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:11:43 -0300, "Fernando Ronci"
<fernandoronci@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

In order to support a legacy application I have to grant read/write access
to the whole shared C: drive of a Windows XP Professional SP2 machine acting
as a file server, including the C:\Windows folder. In other words, the
clients (which are also Win XP Pro SP2 btw) mapping the C:\ drive on the
host machine need to read files in the Windows folder of that machine.
Everything is OK except that access to the Windows folder is denied. I
understand that this is due to XP's security policies nonetheless.
To overcome that restriction, I added an admin-type account on the file
server for each workstation that needs this sort of elevated access level.
Those accounts are the same case and have the same passwords as their
counterparts on the workstations. This, however, didn't make any difference
as access to the <mapped_drive>:\Windows folder is still denied.

So my question is: In an scenario like this, how do I grant access to the
C:\Windows folder on the file server so that the workstations can access the
files in it?

To allow networked access to the Windows folder, disable simple file
sharing on the host machine:

1. Open My Computer.
2. Click Tools > Folder Options > View.
3. Scroll to the end of the advanced settings.
4. Un-check "Use simple file sharing (recommended)".
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