How To Share Pictures Folder Across the Lan?

I have shared my e: drive okay but when I tried to set 'pictures' to shared it didn't work. The folder doesn't show up.

Would it be because I didn't select any specific users? I didn't do that with the e: drive either and it didn't matter.

And while I"m here I might ask about logging in across the lan, too. Because I had to create a whole new user so's I could log in across the lan.

On the target machine I log in with a Pin and I honestly don't know what my username is on it.

So I did my best to find out and tried a few possibilities but I couldn't log in across the lan.

So I created this new user and password just for the job and that's how I get on now. So the question there is what should I have done to find out my username on the target machine and would it need the pin or a password or what and all... ?

version is 2004. cost me two reinstalls in the last two weeks that has. my machine and one of my son's.

and tried to do the righty and use macrium and it chuntered along for an hour or something and then told me there wasn't enough room.

what's the smart way to use macrium? I was going for an image. and I accepted its suggestion for an image that would restore the system - thinking that'd be the smallest..

No. It's the Windows default 'pictures' folder I'm talking about and that on the C: drive under 'user' but on the windows 'quck access' tree or whatever they call it you find it standing there by itself and you can interact with it without going down to 'users' and picking the user you want, etc... you know, I suppose.

well that's the one.

and it didn't, doesn't, show. but the 'users' dir shows, without me doing anything about it that I remember. Only all that is in it is the default user. and a picture folder there which is empty.

so I've tried sharing the 'users' folder and the computer told me that might take some time and it finished up black screening and i couldn't even access task manager to see what was going on so I had to crash that.

Not that I really want to share the whole users folder for every possible user.


and I've tried sharing 'pictures' and as I say that didn't work and I was thinking maybe because I need to have permissions higher up the tree. do we need that? if I share a file down six tolders deep, say, will that file be accessible across the lan without those higher folders each being shared? You'd hope so. Expect so. So then sharing that one file down there would make the machine automatically show the whole path down to it?

now the whole machine is out of reach on the lan. i posted a new thread just for that. i'll see if I can share the pics folder again. and restart, maybe, file and printer sharing... i love windows, eh?

Did you detect that? It's right. I was speeding. I'm a real panic merchant. Fly into overdrive and panic mode the minute something goes wrong... too much coffee maybe...

Anyway, it's cool. It had reset the sharing to 'public' which means it isn't and I had to rest it to 'private' which means it's public and then it popped up again on the lan. whew.

now just that sharing the pictures folder thing....

there's something funny about this 'users' and 'public' folders that I don't get...

:)