User Accounts

From: Jon (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:00:03 -0700

I have set-up my Windows XP Home system so that there is
one administrator and one limited user. I am attempting
to allow some of the folders within "My Documents" to be
available to the limited user and some not to be.
However, whatever settings I seem to set in the
administrator account, whenever in the limited user
account when clicking on "MY Documents" of the
administrator it says access denied. I understand that
the default is meant to be that all files are available
to all local users unless otherwise specified. To
specify this you right-click on the folder, go to
properties and then the sharing tab and then select "Make
this folder private". I want to set it so that some of
the folders are private and some are available to limited
users, however even when none of the folders are selected
to be private the limited user cannot access anything.

I noticed that you can move any folders you want to the
shared folder, however this is unsatisfactory for me as
the command line for all of the files has consequently
changed and causes me numerous problems elsewhere!!

I hope someone can advise,

Thanks,

Jon

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