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Shiring program and documents and settings
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my question is on sharing folders: I'm running win XP on three units and win 95 on another one I can 'see' all the folders on my 95 machine. Can NOT 'see' into or read the program file folder/s or the docs and setting folder/s on the XP machines. Am needing to "see" into the XP folders in order to 'place backups" for usage. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance, John b - Wisconsin Cheesehead... |
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Shiring program and documents and settings
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May be this can Help: http://www.ezlan.net/sharing.html Jack (MVP-Networking). "jb" wrote in message . com... Hi, my question is on sharing folders: I'm running win XP on three units and win 95 on another one I can 'see' all the folders on my 95 machine. Can NOT 'see' into or read the program file folder/s or the docs and setting folder/s on the XP machines. Am needing to "see" into the XP folders in order to 'place backups" for usage. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance, John b - Wisconsin Cheesehead... |
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Shiring program and documents and settings
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wrote: Hi, my question is on sharing folders: I'm running win XP on three units and win 95 on another one I can 'see' all the folders on my 95 machine. Can NOT 'see' into or read the program file folder/s or the docs and setting folder/s on the XP machines. Am needing to "see" into the XP folders in order to 'place backups" for usage. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance, John b - Wisconsin Cheesehead... That's how Windows XP works when it's installed on an NTFS disk partition using "simple file sharing". It blocks access to the Program Files and Windows folders and to individual users' folders within Documents and Settings. You can share subfolders within those folders, e.g. you can share "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express" or "C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Desktop" and access that folder from another computer on the network. If you have Windows XP Professional, you can permanently disable simple file sharing, which removes those sharing restrictions: 1. Open My Computer and click Tools | Folder Options | View. 2. Scroll to the end of the advanced settings. 3. Un-check "Use simple file sharing (recommended)". If you have Windows XP Home Edition, there's no easy solution. The safest thing is to share individual subfolders, as mentioned above. You can re-install the operating system on a FAT or FAT32 disk partition -- those disk formats don't have any sharing restrictions. However, that would lose the benefits of NTFS, which is more reliable and efficient and can use larger disks. You'd also need to re-install all of your applications. I've heard of two possible solutions for XP Home Edition on an NTFS disk partition, but: 1. They're un-supported, un-documented, and un-tested by Microsoft. 2. There's no guarantee that they'll work. 3. They might cause data loss or corruption. I haven't tried them, and I don't know whether they're safe. If you want to try them, at your own risk: 1. Back up your important data first so that you can restore it in case of problems. 2. Run System Restore to create a restore point that you can go back to in case of problems. Here they a 1. Start Windows XP in "Safe Mode with Networking" (which temporarily disables "Simple File Sharing"), share the desired folder(s), set the permissions, and reboot normally, or: 2. Follow the procedure shown he http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm -- Best Wishes, Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking) Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in E-mail or news groups. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program http://mvp.support.microsoft.com |
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Shiring program and documents and settings
THANKS All,
Did the advice - still blocked - - - - guess I will have the backup program just put them in a folder in another directory and copy as needed. THANKS again - John b "jb" wrote in message . com... Hi, my question is on sharing folders: I'm running win XP on three units and win 95 on another one I can 'see' all the folders on my 95 machine. Can NOT 'see' into or read the program file folder/s or the docs and setting folder/s on the XP machines. Am needing to "see" into the XP folders in order to 'place backups" for usage. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance, John b - Wisconsin Cheesehead... |
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