Trouble:
Do you get “Access denied” error message when you try to access some file or folder on a shared folder on a home or office network ?
This is one very commonly faced problems with computers using NTFS file system which most of the windows Xp computers used.
In such a case, when a person shares some folder on a network, then there is usually a read permission for all others. That means all other people, other than the owner of that shared folder can only read its contents and not modify them.
Why Access denied ?
Sometimes it happens that other computers on the network don’t have even the permission to read anything from shared folder (which is on other computer) specially when the person shared the file in my documents , or some file shared on his desktop but these files which lies in my documents or on desktop are private by default when you use windows XP with ntfs file system. This is why Access Denied error message is shown.
How to fix it ?
This problem can be fixed by providing read or read-write permission on the folder from the computer which actually contains the folder.
Fix:
Let us see the steps to fix the problem :
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