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Help! I am running a home network on two Windows XP PRO
machines. Here's the problem. I want FULL administrative
access to ALL FILES AND FOLDERS on the other machine.
When I connect, I can only see certain folders. Is there
an EASY WAY to give me FULL ACCESS on the family machine,
including read,write, and execute? I have tried sharing
the c drive on the family pc, but the "windows" folder
wont give me access from my own computer in the next room.
HELP!
 
Hi, David -

You can use built-in hidden shares to get full access to
the drive without changing a buncha file permissions.
Just open

\\computername\c$

and you should have full access to a machine's c: drive.
You'll need to log on with an account that has
administrator access on the machine you want access to.

XP Home machines don't have hidden shares but XP
Professional machines do :)

hth -
 
and you may want to run XCACLs to ensure your permissions are set up right.
This is just an NTFS issue
 
"David" said:
Help! I am running a home network on two Windows XP PRO
machines. Here's the problem. I want FULL administrative
access to ALL FILES AND FOLDERS on the other machine.
When I connect, I can only see certain folders. Is there
an EASY WAY to give me FULL ACCESS on the family machine,
including read,write, and execute? I have tried sharing
the c drive on the family pc, but the "windows" folder
wont give me access from my own computer in the next room.
HELP!
Click to expand...

That's how Windows XP works when it's installed on an NTFS disk
partition using "Simple File Sharing". It doesn't allow sharing the
Documents and Settings, Program Files, or Windows folders. I don't
know why Microsoft designed it that way.

You can share subfolders within those folders, e.g. you can share
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express" and access that folder from another
computer on the network.

Since you have Windows XP Professional, you can permanently 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).
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