Share folders windows 7
Hi everybody, I have a question, I want to share folders and files without an administrator account, is it possible? I can do it, but just if the files or folders are in C:\users\xxx\documents o some like that. I hope your help Regards
February 1st, 2010 5:56am

share them with who or what? You have to be careful what you're sharing and with whom you're sharing it to. Public folders is one thing, sharing on your local lan is another. You're leaving out a lot of details that could influence the answers you receive. So I'll just give you generalized responses and let you sort through what you're trying to accomplishhttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-in-windows-7-with-homegroup/http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/share-files-and-printers-between-windows-7-and-xp/http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/file-sharing-essentialsThat should get you started without knowing anything about what it is you are sharing. There are many many books on networking and file/folder sharing as well as security involved.MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]
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February 1st, 2010 6:20am

Thanks cdobbs, I'm the administrator in a domain, I want the users shares folders which are in the second partition, like documents, or anything, but when they try to do that is necessary the administrator password, so I can't go to each computer to get permissions. I want they share any folder created by them. Best regards
February 1st, 2010 6:24am

Then I'm confused as to why you'd want the users to share their local folders on their machine when its much much easier to have the shares on the server or other network storage that can be centrally managed to allow users to share files with colleagues without the hassle of them sharing it. You can control who can see what with groups access. Granted you need the hard drive space (we use a network storage array for this) to which we map all users to a common folder and their personal folder and we also store our apps and distribution folders there via the distributed file system. This solves your problem of users sharing documents. Its much easier to assign users to groups, one folder within the main folder could be a common folder to which all users have access to read and write but only the owner has delete permissions. Otherwise you'd end up assigning users as admin's and using a GPO to turn off UAC which defeats the whole purpose although I'd bet your users would be happy (and causing you many more headaches) ;)MCSE, MCSA, MCDST [If this post helps to resolve your issue, please click the "Mark as Answer" or "Helpful" button at the top of this message. By marking a post as Answered, or Helpful you help others find the answer faster.]
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February 1st, 2010 4:57pm

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