Sharing Question

Minor question: is it normal that two PCs on a wireless network in XP home cannot share access to the "Program Files" and "Windows" folders? I get a message saying these folders cannot be shared.

 

If you really need to share those two, you might try it from safe mode. XP-home does some very strange "security" things and some tasks just can't be done except from safe mode.

But I agree with PeteC that those aren't normally folders you'd want to share.

I can't be sure about XP-home and on a workgroup (don't have that OS to test) but you may find that Windows is already shared as ADMIN$. The $ at the end makes it a hidden share like the one for C$ so it won't show up but is there. Easy enough to test.

From PC2 when logged on with an account that is also on PC1 and has admin rights on PC1,
start~run~\\PC1\Admin$ and see what happens.

 

Okay, I admit it. There's no valid reason for wanting to share anything in the Progam Files or Windows folders.

I just hate being told what I cannot do.

It's a holdover from the 60s. My apologies.

 

No apology needed. I do the exact same thing but in my case at home, I chose to connect to the C$ share on the other XP PC so I got soup to nuts.