Sharing Folders- Trying to make it look simple.

[SBO Dental Lab]

We are networking (a workgroup) 3 computers using XP. Is there any way of
just sharing the My Documents Folders on each PC without having all these
new folders created in the explorer tree to say that they're shared?
People are finding it confusing. Furthermore we want to do away with the
default shared folder on each PC but how do we get rid of them. The whole
idea is to just share each PC's My Documents folder and having it looking
straight forward to use so everyone doesn't get confused about saving
documents etc. We just use on user account.
One final problem is that a folder is being shared but only for a program to
access it so it can use a database file. We don't need or want it displayed
on the tree or in the Network Places. Can we hide it?

Thanks for your attention any help you can give us.

David

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[Peter Hutchison]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:43:07 +0100, "SBO Dental Lab"
> wrote:

>We are networking (a workgroup) 3 computers using XP. Is there any way of
>just sharing the My Documents Folders on each PC without having all these
>new folders created in the explorer tree to say that they're shared?
>People are finding it confusing. Furthermore we want to do away with the
>default shared folder on each PC but how do we get rid of them. The whole
>idea is to just share each PC's My Documents folder and having it looking
>straight forward to use so everyone doesn't get confused about saving
>documents etc. We just use on user account.

Each user has their Own Documents folder, -unless- you specify to use
the same folder for the documents on the same computer ie just 3
shares across 3 PCs.

>One final problem is that a folder is being shared but only for a program to
>access it so it can use a database file. We don't need or want it displayed
>on the tree or in the Network Places. Can we hide it?

Yes, by unsharing the folder. ie Right click the Shared Folders
folder, click Sharing and Security and untick 'Share this folder on
the network'.Peter Hutchison
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