>>>I'll look at those, but I just don't get it. I'm on the PC telling it to share with everyone with all rights. From C drive on down through the directory structure. Every folder along the way.
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>>That's pretty drastic, and not good for safety/security. Are you doing this just because you're frustrated that you can't get things to work?
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>Yes.
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>>>Then it shows up in my network list on the network so I can see them on the laptop. Why can't I access them? This stuff always seems like such a pain to me. I'm sure it's just because I don't understand it, but it seems very convoluted at the same time.
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>I kept going down the tree to what I needed access to because I couldn't get to them otherwise. Actually still can't, so I really didn't gain anything. This is the deal:
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>Users are:
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>On PC (JayServer)
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>Brenda (Administrator)
>Jay (Administrator)
>Monica (Restricted)
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>On Laptop (JayWS)
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>Jay Johengen (Administrator)
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>On the laptop I can get to to documents and settings\Brenda and all folders files below. This was setup a few months ago. I want the same thing for Jay and Monica, but it won't let me have access.
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>Brenda and Jay are Administrator
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>>Are you sure that permissions are being propagated to child folders?
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>I'm not sure of anything at this point. Like I said, I started at one level and just kept going down lower when I couldn't get access.

Folders under Documents and Settings (i.e. user profiles) get special treatment. Users can choose to make these folders "private" - if they do so, everyone except them (even local Administrators) are removed from the Access Control List (ACL) and privileges are set to not propagate down from parent folders. If this is what's happened the easiest thing to do is to log on as each user, and re-set the profiles back so they are non-private. Then you should be able to get the access you want.

If you're just trying to share documents in a user's My Documents folder, I think there's a wizard that lets you do that easily.

To avoid special treatment of the Documents and Settings profiles, and also of the root folder of a drive, it's usually a good idea to set up a new folder for sharing stuff e.g. C:\NetShare, and working with that, rather than messing around with user profile folders or root folders.