Two users sharing My Documents

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Lawrence Hare

I am familiar in XP with the process of creating a new
user, setting up the user documents (My Documents) and so
on. I have set up a user to take the place of a previous
user and copied the My Documents from the old to the new
user. All this works fine.

What I need to do now is create a new user on a machine
so that different network options can be defined between
the two users. This new user is really the same as
the "other" user - that is - ME! This machine will access
two separate networks, two different ISPs on different
subnets and so on, so basic network options will differ
between the two users and different email options as
well - I CAN do this right?. The network cable from the
machine will be physically switched as one or the other
networks is required. I shall then log in with the user
name of the user defined for the network.

What I need to do is share the "My Documents" between the
two users so they have the same set of documents and user
files. As the applications are define in "All Users"
there should be no problem there.

How can I share the My Documents root folder bewteen two
users effectively and is there a better way to do this?

Thanks - Lawrence
 
What I need to do is share the "My Documents" between the
two users so they have the same set of documents and user
files. As the applications are define in "All Users"
there should be no problem there.
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Do this for both users:
- Click Start
- Right-click My Documents
- Change the Target location to the same folder on both user profiles
 
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