Resolved Access denied

Not sure that this belongs here but everything I have done points to the operating system and permissions. I have tried several things after posting questions on other forums with no satisfactory solution. I will include the post I placed on SyncToy forum which has had numerous views but no responses/replies. If this is the wrong forum for this please advise and I will repost in the appropriate one. Thanks and here is the post which outlines the problem:

I have a laptop and desktop both running Windows 7 and I want to synchronize files between the two devices. I have downloaded SyncToy 2.1 and created a test folder pair to see that everything worked properly before I dive in to doing a complete setup of the files I need to keep synced. I had a folder named Medical containing six files that I selected to make the test pair. The folder existed on both computers with the same files in them. I changed one file within the foler, i.e "Medications" and split the data within the file by taking half of the date and copying it to a new file and called it "Sharon Medications ". I then attempted the sync to see if it worked and got the following log: Error: Unknown error Access is denied..... Source File: Sharon Medications.docx Source Path: C:\Users\Don and Sharon\Documents\Medical Last Modified: 2/17/2010 4:50:23 PM Target File: Sharon Medications.docx Target Path: \\DANDSDESKTOP-PC\User\DonandSharon\Documents\Medical. Thank you for any input. I really like SyncToy and really hope to get it working properly.

 

Thank you TonyT for getting back to me. That has been done and the shares are set up and I had done all that before I set up the test for SyncToy. Don't know what is causing the problem but all the research that I have done makes me think it has something to do with Windows 7 permissions, etc. Don't understand all I know about that. I have Windows 7 x64 on both machines. I have tried changing the permissions and have not been successfull. Both computers are networked and I can access either of them from the other and have done that using Team Viewer and other programs. I share printers without problems and I am able to open files from one to the other but someimes I get the access denied message when I create a file on one computer and try to transfer it to the other. I am hoping that someone will come up with a solution somewhere along the way because I would really like to synchronize many things between the two of them.

Thanks again for your input - this forum rocks.

 

Apparently there is little information out there relative to this problem so am going to mark it as resolved although it really isn't. If I discover further information relative to this I will reopen the thread. Thanks to TonyT for his input.