Hi all,Please can someone help me.I am trying to share individual files on my home network using a vista home laptop and an xp desktop.When I choose to share an individual file it is not visible on my other computers nor is it in the files shared by me folder.I can share fine using the public folder.In my network places on my desktop I have a file for users on my laptop but when I open it it only displays a public folder and a default folder which is a faint colour non of which contain the individual folders I chose to share using the right click option.Also to note when choosing to share a folder the users only displays users on the laptop, so I changed the username on my desktop to the same as the laptop and also tried to share with everyone and still no the joy.FYI password protection sharing is off file and print sharing on and firwall exeptions all sorted.Any advice would be appreciated.Cheers,Jon

Hi Jon, Please understand that files and folders shared from within Users (typically from within Documents or some other subfolder of the users profile) are not shared as explicit high-level SMB shares. In other words, they dont show up when you browse Network and view the SMB shares on the computer. Instead, files and folder shared from within User use Access-Based Enumeration (ABE) to control which users on the network are able to view and access them. For example, if the folder Reports is shared from within your Documents folder for some other users to access, those users will be able to access the folder by using the path \\computername\Users\username\Documents\Reports instead of the path \\computernamei\Reports, which would be used if Reports was an explicit SMB share. Similarly, if the file A.doc is shared from within your Documents folder, the users you are sharing it with will be able to access the file using the path \\computername\Users\username\Documents\A.doc. Hope the information is helpful.