problem accessing userfiles on XP

Paul Kaplan pkaplan1 at comcast.net
Wed Dec 20 02:05:32 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:14 pm, cameron conner wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:55:27 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > I'm using SMB4K to mount a WinXP box across my home LAN.  I can read
> > all the
> > user files except for those contained in the directory owned by an
> > administrator account.  Anyone know how to open that account on the
> > LAN only?
> > TIA
> > Paul
>
> You need to share that user's folder. Windows is kinda good with that,
> actually. Sucks they don't give more warning for a root drive share,
> though.
So how come I don't have to share the directories of non administrator account 
users to see them?  Seems like pretty weak security, but then isn't that why 
we prefer Linux.
Paul




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