Hello all. Is it possible to share a folder without Admin rights, just like on Windows XP? Users are not allow to be local administrators, UAC must be on and users must have a possibility to share folder on their desktop, my documents or disk d. That was all possible on Windows XP. TX.

Yes. Public folders and user specific folders with persmissions set. Right-click the folder=>select properties=>select the Sharing tab. This is how the sharing is configured.

Yes I know that, but on that step problem starts. Let's assume that user is not administrator, what then? When user is trying to share a folder he/she selects folder > right click > share then chooses other users which have rights to open folder and the last step is to click on SHARE button bellow (it's marked with admin shield). Then administrator must allow share! Is is possible to avoid administrator?

I have created a standard user account, created a folder on the desktop, and right-clicked it. The menu offers a share option. Selecting it provides a share with "add" box-type a name-select homegroup-select drop down by clicking on the arrow and select everyone-select ok ...it is shared. I get to the box by right-clicking the folder, selecting properties and selecting the share tab. If you have Domain user accounts, sharing may be prohibited by group policy settings. You can find and modify that or have the user create folders and place data into the Public folders, which are shared without restriction.

Tx for fast response. I tried as you mentioned above and it works but administrator shield restriction stays. Computers are in domain and group policy was not modified for sharing at all so it is on default settings. I read that if I just turn file sharing it will work. Don't get me wrong, your answer really works on our computers but not quite as we need, it always asks for administrator to allow share. Another problem starts If I turn on Public folder sharing, entire User folder goes to share and we cannot allow that. We would like to allow advanced share for all domain users without any administrator confirmation (I assume over group policy). Just to mention a problem that we solved with printer driver installation. Domain users were not allowed to install network printers on their computers (not local printers), problem was with driver installation, and after few days I managed to find a policy that needed to be altered in order to allow installation. After testing on one client computer we placed it on server and put all Windows 7 computers in that group. Now this new problem with sharing emerged. It's frustrating that everything is working and it's not working at same time. Yes we can share a folder without problems but I'm administrator, user can't. Also this same user on any other Windows XP computer can share without any restrictions.

In gpedit.msc, Local Computer policy, user configuration, Administrative Templates, shared folders, Allow shared folders to be published.

Thank you!!! UAC off, and Share Wizard off, Advanced Share works like a charm!