Re: PC folder has stopped sharing over network!

Lobster wrote:
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Good idea.... so I've just tried that, but it hasn't helped.

This is doing my head in. I've just tried enabling sharing on the root
directory (ie drive C) of this machine. From another machine I can
access this over the network, then I can go on to access C:\Documents
and Settings\; and within that folder I can open the folders "All
Users", and "Owner" but not "Kids" - access denied. I have separately
enabled sharing on the folders within "Kids" - ie "My Documents",
"Desktop", "Favorites" etc and "My New Test Folder", all of which are
inaccessible over the network.

So following Jim's principle I've just tried creating a new user account on the PC - "Kids2", and enabled sharing on its component folders. So now when I repeat trying network access from my own PC, I can see C:\Documents and Settings\Kids2 as well - and also the new share for "Kids2 Documents" under My Network Places. Yet both remain inaccessible!

This can't be happening, can it????

David

Still sounds like a local XP permissions screw-up. If you boot to safe mode and login as administrator (and set a password, if not already set), you can then run windows explorer and look at the permissions for the kids folder in "documents and settings". There is a security tab that lists the access permissions and you can add to these to "open" the account in any way you wish (don't forget to apply these to files and folders).

You can also use an command line command (CACLS) to modify ACLs in normal windows mode, but it's not for the faint hearted :-)

Apologies if this does not fit your level of expertise.

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