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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008File sharing
I can't 'unshare' my documents folder from other users (I'm the only administrator account), I keep getting an error message that this folder is in a shared folder?? Thank you, Ed Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hi Ed, What is the actual location of this folder? The error message is indicating that a parent folder is being shared and this is being propagated to the child folders. When open to this folder, click in the address bar, then copy/paste this location into your response.  SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com >I can't 'unshare' my documents folder from other users (I'm the only >administrator account), I keep getting an error message that this folder is [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Ed > Windows Vista Home Premium x64 I'm actually looking to keep an entire user profile private, an administrator. But the folder I was referring to is 'Documents' under 'users/my name... None have hade sharing chosen as far as I know. SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> Ed >> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 The \Users\Public is the only folder that is shared by default. SignatureVista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview > I'm actually looking to keep an entire user profile private, an > administrator. But the folder I was referring to is 'Documents' under [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> Ed >>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Yes, there is some sort of error I do not want folders in my user account shared with other users. But they are and I can't stop sharing because I receive the message every time I try 'You could not stop sharing the selected folder' because it's in a shared folder but it is not in a shared folder, I want to fix this and stop sharing the folder (that I never set to share in the first place. SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > The \Users\Public is the only folder that is shared by default. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>>> Ed >>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 C:\Users\Pfl04\Documents sorry didn't see you asked for this. Hey Rick by the way, you've helped me over on winxp big time in the past. SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> Ed >> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hi Ed, Check sharing on the upper level folders (Users and Pfl04) as well as C:, disable it there if found. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > C:\Users\Pfl04\Documents > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>> Ed >>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Okay: C: is not shared /Users IS shared /pfl... is not shared /Documents is not shared /and so down the tree. Hum, Can I safely make 'users' not shared and then I can not share my personal user 'pfl...'? SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >>>> Ed >>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hi Ed, Correct. "Users" should not be shared. Disabling sharing of that folder will allow you to privatize your personal documents. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > Okay: > C: is not shared [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >>>>> Ed >>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 I appreciate your help rick but it is some kind of bug going on. See: ( http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=3845 ) The entire tree is now marked 'Not Shared' and I believe it was that way when I started this, but if I right click on Documents, click share, and click to not share I get a message saying I could not not share. the reason given is that the folder is in a shared folder. And when I check on files in my user account from another user account via explorer, I can open and edit those files. I'm trying to reproduce the way I had it set up on xp. My user account was not shared. Other users couldn't even look at my files never mind open them. Can this be done in Vista? Is this just a problem with my computer? Thanks again. SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>>>>> Ed >>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hi Ed, It's a problem with your machine. By default, user account folders in Vista are not shared. It would have had to been manually enabled, either intentionally or perhaps as the result of some file sharing (P2P) software. There's no bug that enables unintentional sharing that I am aware of. If a parent folder is shared and set for subfolders to inherit this, then you can't disable sharing on the child folders. You'd have to start at the top level folder and work your way down. This is why I wanted you to check sharing on both the C:\Users and your <username> folder. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com >I appreciate your help rick but it is some kind of bug going on. See: ( >http://www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?t=3845 ) The entire [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] >>>>>>> Ed >>>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Okay I'll keep researching. All folders in the tree are marked that they're not shared but they still are. Weird. Thanks for everything. SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Hi Ed, > [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] >>>>>>>> Ed >>>>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Rebooted since making the changes? Just a shot in the dark there. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > Okay I'll keep researching. All folders in the tree are marked that > they're not shared but they still are. Weird. [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] >>>>>>>>> Ed >>>>>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hey Rick: If your still there, I just found out that the 'Public' folder (which I have shared for my network) is in the tree: C:/Users/ Public. Now is it true if any folder in the tree is shared all the parent folders will be shared? I think that's how I read it. Any way around that? SignatureWindows Vista Home Premium 64-BIT SP1 Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5550 @ 1.83GHz 4.00 GB RAM 300 GB HDD > Rebooted since making the changes? Just a shot in the dark there. > [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] >>>>>>>>>> Ed >>>>>>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 Hi Ed, It's normal for \Public to be shared, but it wouldn't propagate upwards to the \Users parent directory, only the reverse. SignatureBest of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > Hey Rick: > [quoted text clipped - 76 lines] >>>>>>>>>>> Ed >>>>>>>>>>> Windows Vista Home Premium x64 |
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