I don't claim to be a guru when comes to networks/permission's and sharing, but I've been successfully doing it without any real issues since Win 98.
I thought I would make the leap forward and install 8.1 with all its updates the other day, so far a mistake.
I have always done this with all Windows versions, as soon as the install is complete I change the default directory/location for "My Documents" to and separate data HDD, in this case happens to be my G: drive. Then I share this drive. I only have one user account and it has full administrative rights.
1. First issue is when I fired up my WD Live media player and could not find or access My Documents. It was trying to look where the old folder was located on my C: drive when 8.1 was first installed. No matter how many times I tried to redirect it would not work. I went in and G:/My Documents was listed as being shared. I messed with a few things under permission's and low and behold I was able to access the folder.
2. Ms Office 2010 was installed, and I imported my .pst file and OL wrote the folder to my G: My Doc. I had OL opened a few times and sent mail with NO issues. Today I tried to Open OL and got an error saying I don't have permission to access the file. I went to the file and it shows its shows that the administrator account I log-in with at startup has Full permissions.
I tried creating a new user account and giving it full admin rights, was successful up unto the time when I started try to share and add permissions, it basically came back with an error saying "shared items are not accessible when your computer is asleep". Really, I'm on my desktop yet Win 8.1 thinks its asleep? ? ?
I've never experienced such a nightmare of permission and sharing issue in my life.
I deleted the .pst file of my G:/My Doc, boy did that turn out to be a mistake. What really ticks me of is I have uninstalled Office 2010, deleted everything I can find in the registry and temp folders, but somewhere my OL settings are retained. So when I try to run Outlook it now opens with an error because it can no longer see the data file I was using, and then closes. I just want to do fresh clean install and start from scratch, but Ms had made that impossible. I have run a couple of registry and uninstall cleaner utilities but they are not getting rid of everything Office / Outlook wise. I'm running Win 8.1 Pro
I thought I would make the leap forward and install 8.1 with all its updates the other day, so far a mistake.
I have always done this with all Windows versions, as soon as the install is complete I change the default directory/location for "My Documents" to and separate data HDD, in this case happens to be my G: drive. Then I share this drive. I only have one user account and it has full administrative rights.
1. First issue is when I fired up my WD Live media player and could not find or access My Documents. It was trying to look where the old folder was located on my C: drive when 8.1 was first installed. No matter how many times I tried to redirect it would not work. I went in and G:/My Documents was listed as being shared. I messed with a few things under permission's and low and behold I was able to access the folder.
2. Ms Office 2010 was installed, and I imported my .pst file and OL wrote the folder to my G: My Doc. I had OL opened a few times and sent mail with NO issues. Today I tried to Open OL and got an error saying I don't have permission to access the file. I went to the file and it shows its shows that the administrator account I log-in with at startup has Full permissions.
I tried creating a new user account and giving it full admin rights, was successful up unto the time when I started try to share and add permissions, it basically came back with an error saying "shared items are not accessible when your computer is asleep". Really, I'm on my desktop yet Win 8.1 thinks its asleep? ? ?
I've never experienced such a nightmare of permission and sharing issue in my life.
I deleted the .pst file of my G:/My Doc, boy did that turn out to be a mistake. What really ticks me of is I have uninstalled Office 2010, deleted everything I can find in the registry and temp folders, but somewhere my OL settings are retained. So when I try to run Outlook it now opens with an error because it can no longer see the data file I was using, and then closes. I just want to do fresh clean install and start from scratch, but Ms had made that impossible. I have run a couple of registry and uninstall cleaner utilities but they are not getting rid of everything Office / Outlook wise. I'm running Win 8.1 Pro
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- OS
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