- Out of Luck? Shared Documents not marked ``shared'' XP
- Posted by Ron Hardin on December 7th, 2005
The Shared Documents folder (named, for some reason,
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
(and not ``Shared Documents'')
is no longer marked shared, so I can't access it.
To make it shared, it says to move it into the shared documents
folder. I have found no alternative method in clicking around.
So, how do you make the shared documents folder shared if it's
not shared?
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Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on December 7th, 2005
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents
or
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
is the Shared Documents folder. It gets its name from the desktop.ini
file.
The desktop.ini file may be missing or messed up.
Detailed instructions here on how to fix or create a desktop.ini file for
the Shared Documents folder...
http://computers.douglasthrift.net/w...ared_documents
--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:4396EF35.1758@mindspring.com,
Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> hunted and pecked:
> The Shared Documents folder (named, for some reason,
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
> (and not ``Shared Documents'')
>
> is no longer marked shared, so I can't access it.
>
> To make it shared, it says to move it into the shared documents
> folder. I have found no alternative method in clicking around.
>
> So, how do you make the shared documents folder shared if it's
> not shared?
>
>
> --
> Ron Hardin
> rhhardin@mindspring.com
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Ron Hardin on December 7th, 2005
Wesley Vogel wrote:
>
> %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Documents
> or
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
>
> is the Shared Documents folder. It gets its name from the desktop.ini
> file.
>
> The desktop.ini file may be missing or messed up.
>
> Detailed instructions here on how to fix or create a desktop.ini file for
> the Shared Documents folder...
> http://computers.douglasthrift.net/w...ared_documents
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:4396EF35.1758@mindspring.com,
> Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> hunted and pecked:
> > The Shared Documents folder (named, for some reason,
> > C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents
> > (and not ``Shared Documents'')
> >
> > is no longer marked shared, so I can't access it.
> >
> > To make it shared, it says to move it into the shared documents
> > folder. I have found no alternative method in clicking around.
> >
> > So, how do you make the shared documents folder shared if it's
> > not shared?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ron Hardin
> > rhhardin@mindspring.com
> >
> > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
That clears up the Documents vs Shared Documents mystery but
doesn't help. The Shared Documents name comes from a file
within the folder.
But I can't access within the folder! so it just uses the
real name, Documents.
But for the same reason, I couldn't replace the file either,
even if it were missing or screwed up; which probably it is not.
It's that it's not my folder and it's not sharing, I think.
--
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Ron Hardin on December 7th, 2005
The question is, how do they mark internally that a folder is shared?
That property has been lost by the folder that you move things into
to share them.
And you can't move it into itself to change it.
--
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on December 7th, 2005
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents should be shared by default.
You cannot make that folder private. Right click the C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Documents folder | Properties | Sharing tab
How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040
--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:439742AC.6BE5@mindspring.com,
Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> hunted and pecked:
> The question is, how do they mark internally that a folder is shared?
>
> That property has been lost by the folder that you move things into
> to share them.
>
> And you can't move it into itself to change it.
>
> --
> Ron Hardin
> rhhardin@mindspring.com
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Ron Hardin on December 7th, 2005
Wesley Vogel wrote:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents should be shared by default.
> You cannot make that folder private. Right click the C:\Documents and
> Settings\All Users\Documents folder | Properties | Sharing tab
>
> How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
I diddled around a while, getting the X-zinger audio for inaccessible, and then
it started being accessible again when clicked ``virus scan'' on it.
Now everything works again.
Nothing new has been stored in it since the day it arrived from the factory.
Some other pointer must have been hosed up that the virus scan cleared.
The command prompt can also cd to it now, which it couldn't before.
Well, if it happens to you, try virus scanning it to knock it off dead center.
I bet it was an unfinished operation from the LAN.
--
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
- Posted by Wesley Vogel on December 7th, 2005
> I bet it was an unfinished operation from the LAN.
10 bucks says that you had a virus.
Anyway, glad you got it fixed. ;-)
--
Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:439766D6.12AB@mindspring.com,
Ron Hardin <rhhardin@mindspring.com> hunted and pecked:
> Wesley Vogel wrote:
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents should be shared by
>> default. You cannot make that folder private. Right click the
>> C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents folder | Properties |
>> Sharing tab
>>
>> How to configure file sharing in Windows XP
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304040
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> I diddled around a while, getting the X-zinger audio for inaccessible,
> and then it started being accessible again when clicked ``virus scan'' on
> it.
>
> Now everything works again.
>
> Nothing new has been stored in it since the day it arrived from the
> factory.
>
> Some other pointer must have been hosed up that the virus scan cleared.
>
> The command prompt can also cd to it now, which it couldn't before.
>
> Well, if it happens to you, try virus scanning it to knock it off dead
> center.
>
> I bet it was an unfinished operation from the LAN.
>
> --
> Ron Hardin
> rhhardin@mindspring.com
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
