Folder Share on XP Home

[Deak]

Hello I am setting up a network in my Home & was trying to setup a Folder share of the users on XP-Home to a Windows 98 Box. I checked the permissions on the my documents per user I can see the folders when I go to Map the drive to which I see It says Access denied. I have changed the permissiond to Read Write Everyone to the best that I can tell but I still get this same message. Any ideas for me to try & look at. I did take the created Floppy Disk from my XP Home & ran it on my Win 98 PC to setup the network But still I get the sccess denied when I try & create the Mapped drive! Thanks in advance for anything you can give me.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308419

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

. You want to user convert.exe to change your filestore to NTFS
. You want to use Safe Mode as Administrator to set the permissions required.

Any user profile has a natural set of protections against being used, either across the network or even by other users of a local machine. It is usually better to create a new folder (outside of the Documents and Settings space) and use this as a shared folder for inter-LAN sharing.

 

[linney]

These are handy as a general networking reference.

Simple File Sharing- enabled

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp/filesharing.htm

Simple File Sharing - disabled

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm

http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm

A convenient folder to share on your Home machine with 98 is the Shared Documents folder (a.k.a. All Users Documents) found in My Computer.

 

[bcastner]

bcastner note:

The intention of the Shared Documents folder is for users of the same local workstation, not as a default site for a Network share.

 

[linney]

Good intentions or bad? On our smaller LAN's it is convenient to have the ever ready "All User" access to this folder from bits a pieces coming from another machine on the LAN.