sharing program files folder

[Johnny]

i know its not recommended but i would like to share my program files folder
with other pc on my home network. i setup xp to share my entire drive to the
network but program files is the only folder that is not shared. how do i
enable this folder to be shared?

[Ron Lowe]

"Johnny" > wrote in message
...
> i know its not recommended but i would like to share my program files
folder
> with other pc on my home network. i setup xp to share my entire drive to
the
> network but program files is the only folder that is not shared. how do i
> enable this folder to be shared?
>
>


This is the designed behaviour.

When you share a whole disk ( not reccomended );
which is formatted in NTFS;
on an XP system which has Simple File Sharing enabled,
it will use the NTFS permissions to block shared acess to certain folders.

In XP home, Simple File Sharing is enabled all the time.
And it 'shields' you from the big bad NTFS permissions ( security tab. )
So you can't change it.

The reason some XP Home machine does not block access
to these folders is most likely that the disk is FAT32, not NTFS.
FAT32 does not support file and folder permissions, so this
'feature' does not occour.

Possible workarounds?

1) You can share any individual sub-folders of the blocked folders.

2) You could try booting to safe mode, and from there gain access to the
NTFS permissions ( security tab ), and re-set them.
This would probably remain in force untill you let the Simple File
Sharing UI tramp all over the permissions again.

3) You can re-format the machine to FAT32 ( backwards step. )

4) You can upgrade to XP Pro, and disable Simple File Sharing.
You then have full control of both Share and NTFS permissions.




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Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking