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Doubt by Heather G: Wondering How Others Organize Files on Home Network?

I currently have 3 pc’s on my home network:

Desktop 1 (Main PC)

Desktop 2 (Child PC)

Laptop (Mine)

Originally, Desktop 1 was to act as my “server” & I added additional partitions as follows:

(D:) = Media (Pictures, Music, etc.)

(E:) = Data (My Docs, Desktop Enhancements, etc.)

(F:) = Web (Graphics, Web Pages, etc.)

So far, so good. Now, let’s say I’m on the laptop & need to change something on my resume. I’d go to My Network Places – Data (E) – My Docs – & find my resume. Problem is, I can not save the file back onto Desktop 1, because of permissions. So now my resume has been saved to the (D:) shared partition on the Laptop instead of Desktop 1.

I realize I could check “Allow Network Users to Change my Files”- BUT then I have to worry about my 12 year old on Desktop 2.

So, how are the rest of you syncing your networked pc’s & backing up these files (as in an external drive) without having duplicates all over the place? Also what is the hierchy of folders & subfolders?

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Most practical answer:

Answer by Mike

On my PC I changed a setting in my Local Security Policy under Local Policies. Network Access – Sharing Security model for local accounts I changed from Guest Only – Local users authenticate as Guest to Classic – Local users authenticate as Themselves. This will allow you to make a share and only share it with a certain user. So the user you select to share it with is the only person allowed to access the share. And I also set up the users I want to have access in the Security tab. My setup is basically the same setup as you have above. I usually back my stuff up on a DVD+-RW every couple weeks or so.

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