Posted September 16, 200717 yr Want to have access to my notebook running WinXP-Home from my WinXP-pro home and office computers but no one else. Currently can access my C: drive folder except Doc..&Settings folder. A helpful site said to 1.. Restart your computer in Safe Mode. To do this, follow these steps: a.. Restart your computer. Before you see the Windows XP logo, hold down the F8 key. b.. Select Safe Mode. 2.. Login in as Administrator. You'll get a warning about running in Safe Mode. Click Yes. 3.. Find the folder whose permissions you wish to change. Right click on that folder, and select Properties. 4.. Change the properties of the desired folder(s). Voila. You can now change all the properties of the folder just like you would in Windows 2000. Plus a.. If you want the changes to apply to all subfolders, click the "Advanced" button and then check the box that says: a.. Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects. That's actually what the message says, but don't be worried by the even more vague warning that's given to you when you hit "OK:" a.. This will remove explicitly defined permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions to those child objects. Only inheritable permissions propagated from webapps will take effect. Do you want to continue? I did this for Users under Security tab. Restarted and tried to view files from my other computer with access denied. Noticed under Security tab there were other group/user names - Administrators, Creator Owner, Everyone, System, and Users ((computer name)\Users), which is the one I did the above. Do I need all these names? Do I need to do the advance option for these names? Only want my home and office computer to have access to files so do I need to add there user Names to group list? Thanks for your help in advance.
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