Vista - Vista File Sharing - Works fine, but new files not visible

I have enabled file sharing on my home network so that my wife's XP machine can access photos and music stored on my Vista Home Premium box. Also share printers.

I have set up non-password protected sharing, and it works fine overall - I can see everything she shares, and vice versa, printers work, etc.

The only problem we're having is the photos. Whenever I add new photos they don't show up until I re-share the folder. If I put new photos in a sub-folder, the sub-folder is visible and can be opened without errors, but it appears empty until I re-share the entire photo folder.

I cannot find any information about this problem, but it just occurred to me that I gave the guest account read-only access to the photo folder instead of full permissions. I guess that's one thing to try when I get home, but I would like to keep it read-only so that nothing happens to the pictures accidentally.

Any other suggestions?

this is vistas own protection, since you are adding the files at a later date, the files and folders are shared individually, so even if you add the photos to a shared folder, the photos wont be shared as they werent included when you shared the folder initially, just right click the new folder and just share that folder, you are just adding the folder then and all its contents to the shared network.

Man, that's lame. Any way around it?

I share files at work on a network drive all the time - no such problem - how are they configured to allow new files to have shared permissions??

Sharing a directory with 10k+ photos in it takes a while to apply permissions!

Thanks for the reply.

the only thing i can think of is add a new folder every time you add photos and put them in this folder, right click that folder and set permissions for that folder only.
use it as a quarantine and transfer them into the main directory again after its done.
so you will have this

shared root
---------------
files and folders shared
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quarantine folder
^^^^^^^^^^right click this folder with new photos in and share it every time you add more photos and transfer them into the desired folder afterwards.

Yeah, that would work and would be quicker than processing rights on thousands of files.

Still don't understand how it's set up differently on other file servers though...is there not an admin option to allow new files to be created w/the permissions of the parent folder?

Thanks again for the suggestions.

CR

file servers dont use vista they use server based operating systems

Well, yeah....but HEY - just realized, what about files I put in vista's generic "public" folder?? I don't have to re-share that for them to show up on the other computer! So there must be some folder-lever permissions setting that applies to the files created in the folder....

edit - just tested the theory, photos placed in a sub-folder of "public" are accessible without re-sharing! now just need to figure out what special permissions that public folder has.