file sharing / desktop back ground problem

I am having difficulty getting a picture as a desktop background on another
user's desktop, on my computer.
I have enabled file sharing, and media sharing, and when I check the list of
folders shared, pictures is one of them. However, it doesn't work -
background is black on the desktop of the other user.
Any hints?

CD wrote:

> I am having difficulty getting a picture as a desktop background on
> another user's desktop, on my computer.
> I have enabled file sharing, and media sharing, and when I check the list
> of folders shared, pictures is one of them. However, it doesn't work -
> background is black on the desktop of the other user.
> Any hints?

I'm confused as to what you're trying to do. Are you trying to copy an image
file from your computer to another computer or are you trying to have the
other computer display a file as wallpaper that lives on your computer?

If the latter, don't do that. Copy your wallpaper file to the other user's
computer via LAN file-sharing or transfer it on a USB stick.

If the former, perhaps you don't have file sharing set up properly. Before I
go into great detail about how to set up file sharing on a LAN, please post
back with clarification.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

2 users on one computer. I have a number of pictures in the "pictures" file
on the computer, and I am the main user.
My wife (the other user) shares these pictures, and I am trying to set one
of them as her desktop background.
I tried Control panel> network & file sharing> and set the "Media" to "on".
(in my user file) When clicking the "Show me all the files and folders I am
sharing", it indicates pictures, and is the correct corresponding file.
However, when I went to "personalize" in her identity, while it led to the
similar place, the same pictures appear, but when I chose a picture, it
merely went back to the control panel option, with the screen still black
background. And by the way, she has access to the pictures through the
picture viewing program I use (Picasa)
??


"Malke" <> wrote in message
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> CD wrote:
>
>> I am having difficulty getting a picture as a desktop background on
>> another user's desktop, on my computer.
>> I have enabled file sharing, and media sharing, and when I check the list
>> of folders shared, pictures is one of them. However, it doesn't work -
>> background is black on the desktop of the other user.
>> Any hints?
>
> I'm confused as to what you're trying to do. Are you trying to copy an
> image
> file from your computer to another computer or are you trying to have the
> other computer display a file as wallpaper that lives on your computer?
>
> If the latter, don't do that. Copy your wallpaper file to the other user's
> computer via LAN file-sharing or transfer it on a USB stick.
>
> If the former, perhaps you don't have file sharing set up properly. Before
> I
> go into great detail about how to set up file sharing on a LAN, please
> post
> back with clarification.
>
> Malke
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
> FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
>
>