Windows Vista™ Inside Out

Sharing Files with Public Folders

To share items in your Public folder and its subfolders with other users of your computer, you don’t need to do a thing. By default, all users with an account on your computer can log on and create, view, modify, and delete files in the Public folders. The person who creates a file in a Public folder (or copies an item to a Public folder) is the file’s owner, and has Full Control access. All others who log on locally have Modify access.

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For more information about access levels, see "Controlling Access with NTFS Permissions," Chapter 29.

To share items in your Public folder with network users, in Network And Sharing Center, turn on Public Folder Sharing, as described in the preceding section. You can’t select ...