Public folder

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Andre De Clercq

When I put e.g. documents in my publick folder, do they appear automatically
in the private folder too? Do I really need 2 folders to see all my docs in
vista?
 
Andre De Clercq said:
When I put e.g. documents in my publick folder, do they appear
automatically in the private folder too? Do I really need 2 folders to see
all my docs in vista?
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The public folder is for documents and files that you want to be
automatically available to other users, whether local or on a network.
 
Andre said:
When I put e.g. documents in my publick folder, do they appear
automatically in the private folder too? Do I really need 2 folders to see
all my docs in vista?
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No, they do not automatically duplicate themselves. The Public folder is for
when you want to share files with others on the computer or on other
computers on the network without sharing your own personal user directory.
If you are all by yourself or not sharing those files, there is no reason
to ever use the Public folder. Just leave it alone. You can't delete it
because it is a system folder (other multi-user operating systems like Mac
OS X, Linux, and Unix have a Public folder too).

Malke
 
Thanks. So there is no way to set e.g. a drive (C:\) to be accessible on the
network, even if it is being set as "shared".
 
Andre De Clercq said:
Thanks. So there is no way to set e.g. a drive (C:\) to be accessible on the
network, even if it is being set as "shared".
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Yes you can share an entire C drive if you want to.

That's a different thing from public and private folders altogether.

Tom Lake
 
The problem is that I can get all my network shares from 2 XP pc's on my
Vista. but, although I have set the local drives on my vista as shared, with
all the settings in the network and share center set as proposed in the
moomitch thread, I still get "access denied" when I want to open those vista
drives on the XP pc's. Only the vista Public folder can be opened on the
XP's
 
Andre said:
The problem is that I can get all my network shares from 2 XP pc's on my
Vista. but, although I have set the local drives on my vista as shared,
with all the settings in the network and share center set as proposed in
the moomitch thread, I still get "access denied" when I want to open those
vista drives on the XP pc's. Only the vista Public folder can be opened on
the XP's
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Then you have something set up wrong in your networking, which is a very
different question than your original one. See below for general networking
information, including the extra work you must do to share the root of C:\
in Vista (not recommended).

*****
Here are general network troubleshooting steps. Not everything may be
applicable to your situation, so just take the bits that are. It may look
daunting, but if you follow the steps at the links and suggestions below
systematically and calmly, you will have no difficulty in setting up your
sharing.

Excellent, thorough, yet easy to understand article about File/Printer
Sharing in Vista. Includes details about sharing printers as well as files
and folders:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

For XP, start by running the Network Setup Wizard on all machines (see
caveat in Item A below).

Problems sharing files between computers on a network are generally caused
by 1) a misconfigured firewall; or 2) inadvertently running two firewalls
such as the built-in Windows Firewall and a third-party firewall; and/or 3)
not having identical user accounts and passwords on all Workgroup machines;
4) trying to create shares where the operating system does not permit it.

A. Configure firewalls on all machines to allow the Local Area Network (LAN)
traffic as trusted. With Windows Firewall, this means allowing File/Printer
Sharing on the Exceptions tab. Normally running the Network Setup Wizard on
XP will take care of this for those machines.The only "gotcha" is that this
will turn on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a
third-party firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm
Protection" (like Norton 2006/07) which acts as a firewall, then you're
fine. With third-party firewalls, I usually configure the LAN allowance
with an IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you
would substitute your correct subnet. Do not run more than one firewall.

B. For ease of organization, put all computers in the same Workgroup. This
is done from the System applet in Control Panel, Computer Name tab.

C. Create matching user accounts and passwords on all machines. You do not
need to be logged into the same account on all machines and the passwords
assigned to each user account can be different; the accounts/passwords just
need to exist and match on all machines. DO NOT NEGLECT TO ASSIGN
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF THEY ARE JUST SIMPLE ONES. If you wish a machine to boot
directly to the Desktop (into one particular user's account) for
convenience, you can do this. The instructions at this link work for both
XP and Vista:

Configure Windows to Automatically Login (MVP Ramesh) -
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Autologon.htm

D. If one or more of the computers is XP Pro or Media Center, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab).

E. Create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users' home
directories or Program Files, but you can share folders inside those
directories. A better choice is to simply use the Shared Documents folder.
See the first link above for details about Vista sharing.
*****
Sharing the root of a drive (Michael Bell - MS)

When you share out the root of a drive in Vista, the UI only allows this
through the advanced sharing option. When the advanced sharing option is
used it only sets the share permissions. The actual permissions on a file
share are a combination of Folder and Share permissions. In Vista the
everyone group doesn not have permissions so when you connect without a
password the system you can see the folders but not access them or possibly
connect to the share but fail to open it.

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the context
menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties sheet.

If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.
*****

Malke
 
Below is how I network the two.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Have a read of the above link re Vista File and Printer Sharing.

Permissions/Share info is there as well.

If using Norton, McAfee, Trend Micro I.S., make sure file and printer
sharing is enabled in THEIR firewall (or LAN allowed, depending on how their
Exceptions are worded in their Firewall)

1st thing to do is make sure that the Workgroup Name of ALL the computers is
the SAME.

In Vista Network and Sharing:

Network Discovery: ON (So it can see the other computers)

Network set to Private (Public is for hotspots, airports, etc)

File Sharing: ON

Public Folder Sharing: ON (Vista’s Public Folder is the same as XP’s Shared
Docs)

Password Protected: OFF (unless you want to set up identical usernames and
passwords (passwords can be different) on ALL computers in your Network) If
you have it ON, you will be asked for a username and password when you try to
access a Vista computer from an XP computer, or a Vista computer.

Also, run the XP’s Home or Small Office Network File and Printer Sharing
Wizard to include Vista in your “New†Network, even if you had an XP Network
set up prior to adding a Vista computer to it(redoing the Wizard seems to
work for XP machines!).

In “My Network Placesâ€: “Set up a Home or Small Office Networkâ€
OR under Accessories > Communications > Network Setup Wizard > Allow File
and Printer Sharing.
 
Right Malke, I started with something different but I was (am) desperately
trying to share my Vista on my netwek.Sorry and thanks for the new info.
 
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