I have two computers on a home network. One is XP Pro and the other XP Home.

Essentialy, what I want to do is to have access to, at least, ALL of the folders, with edit-move-etc rights, on the Home from the XP. If it were possible, I would like to be able to absolutely control the Home from the Pro - install, uninstall, etc.

With XP Pro, as I understand it, I can disable Simple File Sharing and use the other approach - forgot the name for the moment (ACL?) - and set it to share any or all files and folders with copy, move, edit etc "rights". With XP Home I can get the same result but I would have to (laboriously) set each and every folder to "share" - only Simple Sharing is available.

But the "Shared Documets" folder in XP (Home and Pro) provides the edit, copy etc rights for all files and folders which are copied/moved to the "Shared Documents" folder.

I have both computers partitioned somewhat "elaborately" - separate partitions for the OS, documents, temp files (Temp, TIF, History, etc), backups, paging, etc. Essentially, I am trying to keep the C: drives as clean as possible - at one time I even had Program Files in a separate directory. I am not sure if this has bought me anything - just a holdover from my WIN95 days - I started playing around with the partitions and haven't quit even though the Home and the XP are faster and I have a good defrag program.

On each, I have a partition desgnated as the "My Documents" folder, i.e., the registry entry for Personal is E:\ (NOT E:\Personal or whatever the default was - I dont' recall)

After reading various info regarding the Shared Documents folder, it seems that redirecting the Shared Documents folder to another location is pretty straight forward (I have seen, elsewhere some discussion about the permissions set up for Shared Documents and this made me wonder if it were dangerous to play with the location).

So here is my "brilliant" idea to achieve my objective of having at least copy, move, edit total on the file and folders on the Home from the Pro:

What if I move (registry edit) the Shared Folders on Home as:
Common Documents = E:\ (NOT E:\Documents)
Note that I also have My Documents ("Personal") redirected to E:\

Now I would have both Common Documents and Personal pointing to E:\, and then "share" both, then I would have full move-edit-etc rights on Home from Pro.

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Am I asking for trouble here or might this work?
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I finally got around to installing a disk imaging program and could image C:\ on the Home and give it a shot but being a cautious type - if I goof one the imaging process (since I'm new at it) and I goof it up then I've go to reload the Home (an HP with lots of garbage which I always come back and clean out) in addition to all the apps - I thought I'd ask. Also, this is the only place I found a direct answer to the "move Shared Documents" question after a modicum of searching.

Thanks for considering this.