Documents & Settings

I have set up a home network with one vista, three xp's. Everyone can see
each other and I can have allowed the drives to be shared on all four
computers. I can access the entire vista drive from the xp's. I cannot
access each of the three xp Documents & Settings from any of the computers
although the drives I have shared have the Documents & Settings within them.
If I have shared the root drive, why would a file within that drive not be
accessible? I would appreciate anyone's help. Thanks.

maryse wrote:
> I have set up a home network with one vista, three xp's. Everyone can see
> each other and I can have allowed the drives to be shared on all four
> computers. I can access the entire vista drive from the xp's. I cannot
> access each of the three xp Documents & Settings from any of the computers
> although the drives I have shared have the Documents & Settings within them.
> If I have shared the root drive, why would a file within that drive not be
> accessible? I would appreciate anyone's help. Thanks.

What version XP? If XP Home, that is why since Home doesn't allow
sharing of users' home directories or program files. If XP Pro, uncheck
"Use Simple Sharing" in Folder Options>View tab>last option.

Or just put files you wish to share in the Shared Documents folder.

Don't forget to put all machines on the same Workgroup and create
identical user accounts/passwords on all machines.


Malke
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