File Sharing Among User Accounts on the Same Computer

Okay, this is very basic so don't laugh too hard when you read this. I set up standard user accounts for everyone in the household last night. Until then, we were all using the Administrator Account, which I recently found out can actually be a bad thing to do. During the process, I thought I set all the appropriate files, folders, etc. to share with the appropriate user account, but whenever anyone in the house opens his or her account, nobody can see the shared documents. When I go to the Network and Sharing Center and ask it to do a search for all shared documents, it tells me that nothing exists. However, when I log back into the Administrator Account, it appears that the folders are being shared with the other accounts. What am I doing wrong?

 

Forget the Network and Sharing Center. That's for sharing over a network.

Use Explorer to set permissions on the folder and files. Right-click, Properties, Security tab. Give everyone read permission. (The "Users" group should include everyone, I think.) Give everyone write and/or execute permission too, if you want to.

 

Thanks, Swarmer. I had already done that. I'll try it again just to see if I missed anything.

 

Wait, what do you mean by "see" the documents. What are you expecting exactly? Do you mean you can't find the files, or you find them but can't access them? You should know the full path to the docs and navigate there in Explorer.

 

Have to set up the proper permissions to allow each user to enter the shared docs folders?

Google how to set up User permissions.

 

Exactly! I cannot see them. I'm almost positive that I did everything correctly.

 

Press Win-R (opens the Run box) and type in the full pathname of the folder from the root of the drive. e.g. "C:\foo\bar\baz"

 

Swarmer, problem solved. Thank you for helping me out.