Re: PC folder has stopped sharing over network!

Lobster wrote:
PeeGee wrote:
Lobster wrote:
PeeGee wrote:
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????


Still sounds like a local XP permissions screw-up.

Point taken - I do agree!
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).

Thanks for that. I've just been in to the security tab, and the access permissions for both kids and administrator are set to "Full Control" (ie all the tick-boxes in the left-hand column are ticked). I browsed around all the tabs, and can't see any differences at all between the settings for kids and administrator.

OK, that means the kids account can access the folders, as can the administrators (as part of the "administrators" group) - standard settings. As an experiment, you can always remove it afterwards, try setting "everyone read" to see if that clears the problem (just for the top level to start, not for the files and folders). This may allow you to see the shared folder and files, but not access them.

Thanks, have just done that, but it makes no difference I'm afraid.

Whatever the problem is I can't understand why it's happened immediately after a clean install, when I didn't touch any of these settings. I'd be willing to do another full install if that was what it took to sort it, but I expect that if I did I'd just have the same again.

The *administrator* account is part of the XP structure and I would advise setting a password (XP Home is very deficient in creating this hidden *master* user and leaving the password blank).

All news to me - how bizarre - at least I've put that right now!

David

I didn't hold much hope for that :-(

One last thought and then I have no other ideas left - if you log onto the remote system and bring up "user accounts", then select your user, are there any entries under "manage my network passwords" in the "related tasks" box. This caused all sorts of problems when passwords changed on a network file server even though the local and remote passwords were the same - but the saved password was different, of course :-(

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