Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries - Part 1
What a gem.. I discovered this article on O’riellynet earlier today that starts to explain XP file sharing. This part of the series concentrates on sharing files on the same XP machine. This article is definitely has a more techinical audience in mind. The next article promises to look at XP file sharing over the network.
“How simple is file sharing in Windows XP? The rationale behind the Simple File Sharing user interface first introduced in XP was apparently to make the task of sharing files easier for users. But I frequently find home users who complain they don’t really understand file sharing in XP and that the file sharing user interface (the Sharing tab) of Windows 2000 was easier to use and understand. Let’s delve into this matter a bit by examining what happens under the hood when you use one form of sharing available in XP, namely same computer sharing.” — by Mitch TullochRead the article
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[...] This article is the continuation of an article I brought to your attention in a previous post. From Oreilly’s Windows Dev Center, we have the continuation of a look into how Windows XP filesharing works. In this article we take a look further into the Simple file sharing and where Windows keeps this data in the registry. [...]