Hi,

I just got a new PC with Windows Vista Ultimate edition. I put it on my LAN
which has static IP addresses and added I added it to my one and only
workgroup. At first, when I clicked on Network, I did not see any of the
other PC's in my workgroup. I was able to get around this by changing the
network location type from public to private. After doing this, I was able
to see all of the PC's in my workgroup but I was not able to access any of
the shares on these other PC's. I was able to get around this by adding the
IP addresses of the other PC's in my workgroup to the "Trusted" list in my
Norton Internet Security personal firewall. Now, I can access the shares on
all of the workgroup PC's. I am able to copy files from these shares to my
"Documents" folder.

Now, I want to copy a file from one of these shares to the root of my C:\
drive but I can't do it. I get a message saying "Destination folder access
denied - You need permssion to perform this action." I get this even though
the account I am logged on to is a member of the local Administrators group,
which has Full Control on the C:\ drive. The only pemission that is not
checked for this group is "Special Permissions." Is there a special
permission I have to add to be able to copy a file to the root of my C:\
drive?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you,
Paul
--
Paul Kraemer

After sending my previous message, I realized that my problem might not be
where I am trying to copy the file to. I think it might be the type of file.


It is a .bat file that I want to execute when Windows starts up. I use it
to map a drive letter to a network share. I have no problem copying .txt
files, but I can't copy the .bat file. The strange thing is that even after
changing the extension to .txt, I still was not able to copy this file. Does
Vista have some kind of security mechanism that prevents certain types of
files from being copied?

Thanks again,
Paul
--
Paul Kraemer


"Paul Kraemer" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got a new PC with Windows Vista Ultimate edition. I put it on my LAN
> which has static IP addresses and added I added it to my one and only
> workgroup. At first, when I clicked on Network, I did not see any of the
> other PC's in my workgroup. I was able to get around this by changing the
> network location type from public to private. After doing this, I was able
> to see all of the PC's in my workgroup but I was not able to access any of
> the shares on these other PC's. I was able to get around this by adding the
> IP addresses of the other PC's in my workgroup to the "Trusted" list in my
> Norton Internet Security personal firewall. Now, I can access the shares on
> all of the workgroup PC's. I am able to copy files from these shares to my
> "Documents" folder.
>
> Now, I want to copy a file from one of these shares to the root of my C:\
> drive but I can't do it. I get a message saying "Destination folder access
> denied - You need permssion to perform this action." I get this even though
> the account I am logged on to is a member of the local Administrators group,
> which has Full Control on the C:\ drive. The only pemission that is not
> checked for this group is "Special Permissions." Is there a special
> permission I have to add to be able to copy a file to the root of my C:\
> drive?
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Paul
> --
> Paul Kraemer