Sharing Vista Desktop

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Hi I have a mixed network of Vista (2) and XP (3). I was using Network magic
previously but had problems with printing. So I nixed the network magic. the
one thing i did like was the ability to get to each of the computers Desktops
directly. I can do that on the Windows XP computers, but when I share the
desktop on the vista computers it shows up as users. You then have to
navigate to the desktop, which is ok but not directly to the desktop. Is
there away to make it go directly to desktop? Thanks Rodger
 
Yes, just go to c:\documents and settings\username folder then share the
desktop folder there. The physical location still exists but vista masks
everything you see on your drive so it says users instead. But if you go to
it by typing c:\documents and settings\ it will open, then you can go into
your profile and right click and share the desktop and that will get your
desired result.

Chris
 
Chris thanks that was exactly what I wanted to do. It took awhile to figure
out why the c:\documents and settings folder was inaccessible. But then I
noticed you wanted me to go further by adding my profile name which took me
where I wanted to go. again thanks Rodger
 
Rodger said:
Chris thanks that was exactly what I wanted to do. It took awhile to
figure out why the c:\documents and settings folder was inaccessible. But
then I noticed you wanted me to go further by adding my profile name which
took me where I wanted to go. again thanks Rodger
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There is no real Documents and Settings location in Vista. The real location
is:

%systemdrive%\Users\your-user-account\[various directories like Desktop,
Documents, etc.]

The Documents and Settings is a *virtual* location called a "junction". It
is there for backwards compatibility with older programs which expect that
location to exist.

There is no problem sharing out the Desktop in Vista if you wish but there's
no reason to get to it in that convoluted way, either.

Malke
 
well, go test it then, you can't link a share directly to your desktop the
normal way. Thats the only way I could figure it out for him. Unless you can
manually go in and edit the share location after the fact, but when you right
click and share the desktop folder in users it shares the users folder as the
original poster posted.

Malke said:
Rodger said:
Chris thanks that was exactly what I wanted to do. It took awhile to
figure out why the c:\documents and settings folder was inaccessible. But
then I noticed you wanted me to go further by adding my profile name which
took me where I wanted to go. again thanks Rodger
Click to expand...

There is no real Documents and Settings location in Vista. The real location
is:

%systemdrive%\Users\your-user-account\[various directories like Desktop,
Documents, etc.]

The Documents and Settings is a *virtual* location called a "junction". It
is there for backwards compatibility with older programs which expect that
location to exist.

There is no problem sharing out the Desktop in Vista if you wish but there's
no reason to get to it in that convoluted way, either.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!
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you can also manually go into your computer management, and shares, and
create a new share directly to c:\users\username\desktop as well to get the
same result, but there must be a bug with the right click share or some odd
excuse for why it shares the user folder instead of desktop if you go in via
explorer and use the right click share method.

Malke said:
Rodger said:
Chris thanks that was exactly what I wanted to do. It took awhile to
figure out why the c:\documents and settings folder was inaccessible. But
then I noticed you wanted me to go further by adding my profile name which
took me where I wanted to go. again thanks Rodger
Click to expand...

There is no real Documents and Settings location in Vista. The real location
is:

%systemdrive%\Users\your-user-account\[various directories like Desktop,
Documents, etc.]

The Documents and Settings is a *virtual* location called a "junction". It
is there for backwards compatibility with older programs which expect that
location to exist.

There is no problem sharing out the Desktop in Vista if you wish but there's
no reason to get to it in that convoluted way, either.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!
Click to expand...
 
Chris said:
well, go test it then, you can't link a share directly to your desktop the
normal way. Thats the only way I could figure it out for him. Unless you
can manually go in and edit the share location after the fact, but when
you right click and share the desktop folder in users it shares the users
folder as the original poster posted.
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Sorry, but it works here for me sharing on a network of machines running XP
Pro, XP Home, Mac OS 10.5.2, and SUSE Linux.

Malke
 
Malke said:
Sorry, but it works here for me sharing on a network of machines running
XP Pro, XP Home, Mac OS 10.5.2, and SUSE Linux.

Malke
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Addendum - Forgot to add Vista Ultimate and even occasionally a server OS to
the mix. I don't ever bother installing any of the other versions of Vista
so perhaps that's a different kettle of fish.

Malke
 
Well I'm happy it's working the way Chris set me up earlier. My 5 computers,
two Vista Home Preminum, one XP Professional, and two XP Home Editions with
the my daughter's occasional OS X. I went from the sort of functional Network
Magic, with it's sometimes I'll print and sometimes I won't problems, to a
really functional network. I'm a happy person. thanks everyone.

Chris Webb said:
you can also manually go into your computer management, and shares, and
create a new share directly to c:\users\username\desktop as well to get the
same result, but there must be a bug with the right click share or some odd
excuse for why it shares the user folder instead of desktop if you go in via
explorer and use the right click share method.

Malke said:
Rodger said:
Chris thanks that was exactly what I wanted to do. It took awhile to
figure out why the c:\documents and settings folder was inaccessible. But
then I noticed you wanted me to go further by adding my profile name which
took me where I wanted to go. again thanks Rodger

:

Yes, just go to c:\documents and settings\username folder then share the
desktop folder there. The physical location still exists but vista masks
everything you see on your drive so it says users instead. But if you go
to it by typing c:\documents and settings\ it will open, then you can go
into your profile and right click and share the desktop and that will get
your desired result.

Chris



:

Hi I have a mixed network of Vista (2) and XP (3). I was using Network
magic previously but had problems with printing. So I nixed the network
magic. the one thing i did like was the ability to get to each of the
computers Desktops directly. I can do that on the Windows XP computers,
but when I share the desktop on the vista computers it shows up as
users. You then have to navigate to the desktop, which is ok but not
directly to the desktop. Is there away to make it go directly to
desktop? Thanks Rodger
Click to expand...

There is no real Documents and Settings location in Vista. The real location
is:

%systemdrive%\Users\your-user-account\[various directories like Desktop,
Documents, etc.]

The Documents and Settings is a *virtual* location called a "junction". It
is there for backwards compatibility with older programs which expect that
location to exist.

There is no problem sharing out the Desktop in Vista if you wish but there's
no reason to get to it in that convoluted way, either.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!
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