I've tried to do this setup a few different ways and each way seems to have its own issue.I have five machines in the house plus a server. 2 Desktops both running Vista SP1, 2 laptops running XP SP3, a laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 and the server also running Ubuntu 8.10.The Ubuntu laptop will goto Vista SP1 soon as I get this figured out.What I am trying to do is locate all of our pics, video's, music, etc on the server. I want each machine to point to a common set of folders for the Documents, Music, Pictures, and Video's.I run into one of two problems. When I share them as separate shares, 1 for Documents, 1 for Music, etc then I am told I cannot connect to multiple shares with 1 username. When I share the top level, the home folder and them point to the individual folders under Home I have better luck but I keep getting told after I use each machine that the recycle bin is corrupt. When I do have success getting it to work after a few reboots the folders will disappear all together. I don't care about user level security, I just want to use a common Documents folder for each computer.Thanks

Hi, I am afraid that your scenario is impossible to be realized. One workaround is that you create a folder like Documents on the server and share it for all users. Then, in the folder create folders for each users and redirect the Documents folder into the folders. For example, create a folder "user1" in "Documents", and redirect the Documents folder of "user1" into \\server\Documents\user1.Arthur Xie - MSFT

Thanks for the reply.I might not have made my explanation clear. I don't need multiple users. I just want the same set of information available from several different machines hosted in a central location.I did have this working a while ago but I had create multiple users on the Linux box. I gave all those users rights to the same folder. Each one logged in connected as a different user but they all pointed to the same set of folders.However it soon ran into trouble with both corrupted recycle bins errors on my one Vista machine. I could also not get it to consistently auto reconnect the resources on start up.

Hi, The behavior in Linux you introduced is not supported in Windows systems. Each users must have their own user profile folders. If you would like to change the locations of Documents, Music, Videos, etc to a location and every user profiles share this location, the users' profiles would be corrupt. In Windows Vista, user profiles folders are protected, by default you cannot access the profile folders of the other users event you are administrator.Arthur Xie - MSFT