Sharing

**Hal Courtney** · May 11th, 2002, 08:45 AM

OK, I've got the network setup between my laptop and desktop, using ethernet cards. But when I try to get into my Program File folder on my desktop from my laptop I get "H:\Program Files not accessible. Access is denied." I want to access to my entire desktop from my laptop, all folders and files. How do I do that?

Thanks, and thanks for all the help getting setup w/this.

Harold

**futuretech** · May 11th, 2002, 12:37 PM

What OS are you using? If using either W2K pro Or XP then you need a user created with a password. The user should be one of the users off of the other computer.
Then in the sharing it has to be shared and that user has to have permission to access the share.

**Todo** · May 11th, 2002, 01:56 PM

Also if its W2K or XP, you could just enable the Guest account to allow you access to the drive. the guest account is disabled by default.

**Gollo** · May 11th, 2002, 03:06 PM

If you are running win2k or xp you can NOT access program files or any system files. (Do a search in the ms kb and you'll find it I would look it up but I'm on dialup)

**silencio** · May 11th, 2002, 06:56 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Gollo:
If you are running win2k or xp you can NOT access program files or any system files. (Do a search in the ms kb and you'll find it I would look it up but I'm on dialup)<hr /></blockquote>Hmm. Never heard of this. Does it have anything to do with configuring your views in folder options?

I can access any file (that's not open with a lock) on any machine on my network and they're all 2000.

Todo, the guest account is a security risk. It's also a good idea to remove the everyone group from the NTFS permissions on your whole drive and deny anonymous enumeration of shares and the SAM. There's a great tool here <a href="http://www.cisecurity.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cisecurity.org/</a> for diagnosing windows systems.

Hal, If you're running NT/2000/XP first set NTFS file permissions to allow you to at least read access and at most modify for whatever account you're connecting to the machine as. Next, set the share permissions to whateve level you require. Finally, make sure you're using the right credentials to connect to the share.

**Hal Courtney** · May 11th, 2002, 09:32 PM

iate,

I'm running XP.

Ok, let's take this one step at a time:

>> first set NTFS file permissions to allow you to at least read access and at most modify for whatever account you're connecting to the machine as. <<

Where do I go to set the NTFS file permissions?

Thanks,
Harold

**Hal Courtney** · May 11th, 2002, 09:58 PM

This might be a simpler solution. I only need to access a couple of folders in Program Files. I have a folder called "Shared Documents" under "Documents & Settings/All Users". Can I copy the needed folders to this folder, so I have duplicates? Will the duplicate automatically update when the original is updated? Sorry, not sure how this works.

Thanks,
Harold

**Hal Courtney** · May 15th, 2002, 03:25 PM

OK, I'll try again:

Can someone PLEASE tell me where to go to find my "NTFS file permissions" so I can reset them so I can access my desktop Program Files folder from my laptop. I've looked all over this &%$#@ computer and I cannot find it and the help file just says click on the Security tab, w/o telling me where to find the tab itself!

Harold

**Poseidon** · May 15th, 2002, 04:01 PM

Start>>Settings>>ControlPanel>>AdministrativeTools >>ComputerManagement:

Expand the System Tools tree and look under shared folders

From within the computer managment console, try right clicking on shared folders,select help.

You can also access the security settings from windows explorer by right clicking and selecting properties on the folder or file you want to share and/or change the settings.

Good luck and post back with your results.

**Hal Courtney** · May 15th, 2002, 04:39 PM

My God, what a struggle.

None of the options in the help files work. For instance when I right click on Program Files, go to Properties/Sharing, the box for "Share this folder on the network" is dimmed, I can't check it at all.

When I go into Computer Management/System Tools/Shared Folders/Shares/C: and right click as the instructions say, there is no Properties option there to choose, just Refresh and Help.

Argh.

Harold

**WebHead** · May 15th, 2002, 05:57 PM

Open Control Panel>Users Accounts. Make sure you're setup as an administrator. Just for the heck of it, make all the users admins (not sure how many user accounts you have on there) and then try it. From there you can handle the rest. The key is to make sure you're a "Computer Administrator" in the User Accounts.

**Todo** · May 15th, 2002, 06:44 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />

posted May 11, 2002 04:06 PM
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If you are running win2k or xp you can NOT access program files or any system files. (Do a search in the ms kb and you'll find it I would look it up but I'm on dialup)

<hr /></blockquote>Gollo is correct. Since you have XP, the option to share Program Files is dimmed. "The Sharing option is not available for the Documents and Settings, Program Files, and WINDOWS system folders. In addition, you cannot share folders in other user's profiles." This is directly taken from XP help.

Hal Courtney you might want to move the files that you want to share to a 'temp' folder, since you can't share the Program Files.

**WebHead** · May 15th, 2002, 07:03 PM

I just now shared subdirectories of my Documents and Settings folder and my Program Files folder. I am running XP Pro. Works fine on my LAN. However, you're right about the Windows folder.

**Hal Courtney** · May 16th, 2002, 01:33 PM

Well, apparently I'm already setup as admin, and I still can't get in. So, since it's just a couple of programs I need access to, I'm just going to reinstall them into a different directory.

Thanks for all the feedback,
Harold

**Darkstar** · May 16th, 2002, 01:37 PM

Can you browse to the administrative share (c$)? You should be able to access everything on your computer from there. I know they have them in XP and I assume they work the same as in 2k (which is wonderfully, btw).

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