I think you're running into a simple file sharing problem. Your wife is a
different user and XP is (correctly) denying her access to your files. One
option (though not so secure) is to drag the money file to the "Shared
Documents" folder. The other would be to enable file sharing and manually
share that file/folder. Obviously, once you share the file, make sure you
have solid security on your computer (a simple step is to rename the Money
file to something innocuous (I usually pick something like "To-do List" so
hackers aren't so interested). You can share a file for only a certain
user, but I'm not enough of a network guru to have successfully accomplished
this with more than a 25% success rate :P

"Robert" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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In microsoft.public.money, Robert wrote:

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Determine what user you are. whoami will tell you
Lets pretend your user name is George.

Let's also assume that the file in question is named My Money.mny

First do the following line, and note the result for later
comparison... I would cut and paste the result to store it:

cacls "My Money.mny"

That will tell the current permission status.

Then do this line to add full permissions for George:

cacls "My Money.mny" /E /G George:F

The E says add this permission to the existing permission. The G
says we are going to Grant to George Full permissions.

Then again do

cacls "My Money.mny"

and see the difference.

I don't have a strong understanding of this. Let us know what works
for you.

In microsoft.public.money, Robert wrote:

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Start with http://umpmfaq.info/faq.html#Q52 and see if that does it.
If not, there are more things to try.

Note that only one user will be able to have Money open at a time in
any case.

I've set up my computer with different users for myself
and for my wife. The problem I'm having is that I setup
money as the user and she is unable to open the file to
view it.