user A can access user B folders but not vice versa

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user A can access user B folders but not vice versa

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What I mean is I have an XP Home Ed fully patched laptop with two users on it. Both are 'Computer administrator' but while User A can browse the folders and files in User B's profile the reverse is not true. So clearly User A is more of an admin than User B.

Can I raise the admin level of User B so that they can browse user A's profile?

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Do both User A and B have the files (or the whole drive) shared? I would think that would be more of an issue than admin level.

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I don't know. I suppose it might be a sharing thing but my experience in a domain environment at work (which this is NOT, it's XP Home Prem) is that if you are a local admin on a PC then you can browse all the folders under C:\Documents and Settings. I expected things to be similar on a stand alone laptop, if you are logged into an account that XP Home Premium deems to be a 'Computer administrator' then I thought you would be able to see everything under C\Documents and Settings. This is true for User A but not User B.
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I usually solve problems like this by moving all the user files away from the Documents and Settings folder into a data partition.

This is almost certainly an issue with the permissions on the folders. I think that the default behaviour is that each users folders are protected from other users and I suspect that someone must have changed the protection on the folders that can be accessed to make this easier.
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Further consultation with User A reveals that it probably is a sharing thing and that something somewhere was ticked to stop folders being visible to others. I will look into this more when I'm next at the laptop.

Thanks for the help so far.

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Found the answer. Log in as User A, right click on their root profile folder C\docs & settings\user a click properties and on the sharing tab their is a make this folder private tick box.

It's not ticked by default on any profiles on my main XPMCE box nor for User B on XP Home Prem. User A is clearly a bit paranoid.

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More interesting is that I don't even have such a tick box on my XP MCE... Hmmm. Mebbe it's because I have the whole drive shared.

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:confused: You mean on your XPMCE system if in Explorer you find:
C:\Documents and Settings\username
and right click and select properties and then select the Sharing tab you don't see this?
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Not nearly like that. The only thing I can think of is the fact that I've shared the whole drive. I'm lost...
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My curiosity about this is getting me. I tried un-sharing my drive but the properties window didn't change, Ken.

Here's a shot of my XP MCE properties screen. Is it possible there's more than one "version?"
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It was an idea Al but my Sys Props box is almost identical to yours - even down to the CPU!
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