re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC Friday, April 7, 2006 at 7:03 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Cheeseman (279 messages posted) Everything should be here: Configure file sharing in Windows XP On Friday, April 7, 2006 at 6:20 pm, Dick wrote: >I recently got a PC with XP Pro on it (I'm a Win2K user). When I map a drive on my >Win2k PC to the C$ share on my XP machine, I can see all the directories fine, but >if I try to view the Program Files or Windows directories it won't let me see anything. > >Also if I try to connect to an XP machine's drive from my win2k machine using my > XP machine's 'Administrator' username and password it doesn't accept it. If I connect >while logged in to my Win2K machine with a username and password that is set up as >an adminstrator on the XP machine I can connect to shares on the XP machine just >fine. I still can't see the Program Files and Windows directory contents though. > >What part of XP's security am I missing here? Written in response to: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (Dick: Friday, April 7, 2006 at 6:20 pm) Responses to this message: re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (john: Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 1:02 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (Dick: Fri, Apr 7, 2006, 6:20 pm) re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (Cheeseman: Fri, Apr 7, 2006, 7:03 pm) re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (john: Sat, Apr 8, 2006, 1:02 pm) re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (Rich Kurtz: Sat, Apr 8, 2006, 2:36 pm) re: Can't view Program Files or Windows directory from remote PC (Rich Kurtz: Sat, Apr 8, 2006, 2:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum