Sharing "My Documents"

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Paul D.Smith

Apologies because I imagine this has been asked many times!

I have read the web and I do understand the concept of security etc but I'm
still no nearer to enswering the question "can I share my personal "My
documents folder?"

I want to share...

c:\documents and settings\pds\my documents

....between two Windows XP Pro machies in a home network where I log onto
both machines using the user "pds". Can I do this and if so how? Everythig
I've tried hides these <expletive deleted> folders.

Thanks,
Paul DS.
 
Paul said:
Apologies because I imagine this has been asked many times!

I have read the web and I do understand the concept of security etc but
I'm still no nearer to enswering the question "can I share my personal "My
documents folder?"

I want to share...

c:\documents and settings\pds\my documents

...between two Windows XP Pro machies in a home network where I log onto
both machines using the user "pds". Can I do this and if so how?
Everythig I've tried hides these <expletive deleted> folders.
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Yes, in XP Pro you can share your My Documents directory.

1. 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 CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY 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:

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

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

This assumes that you have already configured your firewall correctly, of
course.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Yes, in XP Pro you can share your My Documents directory.

1. 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 CREATE
PASSWORDS, EVEN IF ONLY 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:

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

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

This assumes that you have already configured your firewall correctly, of
course.

Malke
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Malke,

Thanks for those suggestions. I've done them but I did have simple file
sharing set on previously so I suspect I have some permissions screwed up
somewhere. Since I can see everything except below c:\docu...\pds, I'll try
resetting the permissions for this directory tonight and see whether that
help.

At least I now know that I'm not chasing a dream/nightmare and that
eventually I will succeed!

Paul DS
 
Sharing of any folder inside a userprofile hits filesystem-permissions
problems if the disk is NTFS. On XP Pro it is at least possible to adjust the
permissions, while on Home this is difficult owing to the controls being
inaccessible except in safe mode.

Best answer is to share a folder outside of this area, e.g. 'C:\shared' and
apply Everyone/Full NTFS permissions to the folder and files. Reason I say to
use Everyone is that other useraccounts are subject to SID-difference
problems between computers unless a domain is in use.

Control access by way of the share permissions.

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