Granting access to NTFS drive

Hello all.

I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).

Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to
access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users
could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I
go about doing this?


TIA
Adeel

Adeel wrote:
> I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
> 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
> drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).
>
> Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to
> access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator
> users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it.
> How do I go about doing this?

Interesting.
I'm not 100% sure this would work - but - you would need to grant everyone
their rights back first..

Then connect to machine (1) - grant the admin full rights to every
file/folder.
Then connect to machine (2) - grant the admin there full rights to every
file/folder.
Remove the "everyone" group.

Now see what happens. It could be that when looking at file/folder
permissions on one machine - you see an unknown-SID that has permissions.
If so - then the same should be true when you connect tot he other machine -
just a different unknown SID.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Just add administrators to the access control list. Then any administrator
[built in administrator or member of administrators group] on either
computer can access the files. --- Steve


"Adeel" <dontWantSpam@All> wrote in message
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> Hello all.
>
> I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
> 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive
> was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).
>
> Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access
> it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could
> access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about
> doing this?
>
>
> TIA
> Adeel
>

Thanks for your response Shenan.

I have XP home on the second machine... and as a result there is no
security tab. So I can't grant full control to the admin account on
it.


What do I do now?


TIA
Adeel

Adeel wrote:
> I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
> 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
> drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).
>
> Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to
> access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator
> users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it.
> How do I go about doing this?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> I'm not 100% sure this would work - but - you would need to grant
> everyone their rights back first..
>
> Then connect to machine (1) - grant the admin full rights to every
> file/folder.
> Then connect to machine (2) - grant the admin there full rights to
> every file/folder.
> Remove the "everyone" group.
>
> Now see what happens. It could be that when looking at file/folder
> permissions on one machine - you see an unknown-SID that has
> permissions. If so - then the same should be true when you connect
> to the other machine - just a different unknown SID.

Adeel wrote:
> Thanks for your response Shenan.
>
> I have XP home on the second machine... and as a result there is no
> security tab. So I can't grant full control to the admin account on
> it.
>
> What do I do now?

I think Steven's response may work.. Give it a shot.
(Although - if you boot into safe mode - you have the security tab.)

Steven L Umbach wrote:
> Just add administrators to the access control list. Then any
> administrator [built in administrator or member of administrators
> group] on either computer can access the files. --- Steve

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thanks for replying Steve...

Where would I find this 'access control list'?


TIA
Adeel

> I think Steven's response may work.. Give it a shot.
> (Although - if you boot into safe mode - you have the security tab.)
>

Thanks Shenan... booting into safe mode did the trick. It got me the
security tab. And the rest of the process was just the way you said it
would be.


Thanks again for your help
Adeel

Adeel wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
> 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
> drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).
>
> Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to
> access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users
> could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I
> go about doing this?
>
>
> TIA
> Adeel
>
Try the FaJo XP File Security Extension (XP FSE)
It's free and gives XP Home (Prof and w2k) a security tab.

http://www.fajo.de/portal/index.php...&id=6&Itemid=47


Sjoerd Visser

Sjoerd Visser wrote:
> Try the FaJo XP File Security Extension (XP FSE)
> It's free and gives XP Home (Prof and w2k) a security tab.
>
> http://www.fajo.de/portal/index.php...&id=6&Itemid=47

Interesting tool. Going to check it out.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

The access control list is where you manage permissions via the security tab
by adding users/groups and giving them the needed permissions and per
response to Shenan it sounds like you all ready have done it. --- Steve


"Adeel" <dontWantSpam@All> wrote in message
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> Thanks for replying Steve...
>
> Where would I find this 'access control list'?
>
>
> TIA
> Adeel
>