Comments on: Setting Folder Sharing Permissions on Windows XP Home

By: vanessa

vanessa — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:45:06 +0000

Yeah! i also had try this in SP2, but it’s NOt working. sigh… ANy other way to do?

By: LM

LM — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:23:22 +0000

Opps, I got it wrong! After some more trial-and-error I found it was not admin vs non-admin account. It is the _first_ account created can share the c:\Documents and Settings\username folder but nobody else can whether they are admin or not.

In summary: Install XP Home using account name “Bob”. Create a second account with admin rights called “Admin2″. Create a third account with limited rights called “LimitedUser”. Share the folders for each of these under “C:\Documents and Settings” by using shrpubw.exe as described above. All uses can access “c:\Documents and Settings\Bob” but none of the users can access “c:\Documents and Settings\Admin2″ nor “c:\Documents and Settings\LimitedUser”.

By: LM

LM — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:03:01 +0000

FYI, I tried it on WinXP Home SP3 and it works for the documents folder for user accounts with admin rights (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\username1 where username1 has admin rights on the system), but it fails where the user has a limited account. Anyone know a work-around?

By: Phil Wiffen

Phil Wiffen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:47:30 +0000

Hi Phil, I did it on SP2 way back when. I hope they’ve not covered up the hole in SP3 as it was very useful!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:14:28 +0000

Nice article, but it didn’t work for me.

The Wizard did show up, and I was able to configure the permissions, but when I’m trying to access the shares, it says that I do not have the autorization.

What Service Pack was installed when you tried this thing? I’m on SP3.

By: Phil Wiffen

Phil Wiffen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:32:26 +0000

Thanks for picking up on that Bruce. It seems the formatting on the text went very weird and garbled. I’ve now modified the source so that it should display properly!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:41:07 +0000

For those trying to figure out how what
“Start Â» Run Â» Type â€™shrpubwâ€™ into the box and hit OK.”
means, here ya go.

Start, run, type shrpubw.exe into box and hit ok.
It starts a folder sharing wizard.