Why Doesn't WinXP allow the sharing of 'Program files', 'Windows' folder and other system folders?

[ScUmA]

Have a small network setup, when I go to sharing and security on the c:\
it'll share the drive as whatever, but it will not share system folders such as 'program files' and 'windows' folder as it says "The following folder and file are used by the operating system".

When I try to access these folders from the other computer it says "you do not have access to view this folder"

what the hell is going on?

 

[kursplat]

very new to XP so bear with me if this is a very stupid answer . have you run the network wizard on the other comp your trying to access from?
only way i could get xp to let me "see " other win 98 comps on my lan.
good luck

 

[ScUmA]

i'm running win2000 server, it does not except the install shield.
Besides when I was running 98 on this machine, setup with the network wizard I still had the same problem