cannot uncheck read-only on folder

[Kevin]

I am attempting to set up a folder on a secondary hd on a Windows XP
machine on my home network so that my son can archive data from his Mac
G4 onto it.

He can "see" the drive from his Mac, but the menu indicates that he does
not have write access to it. I don't have the exact screen/menu
precisitudes, but that's it in essence. ("Precisitudes" is a Bushism.)

On the XP side, when I open Properties on the folder I set up for him,
the read-only attribute is set. I uncheck it, Apply, exit the window,
and then when I get back in a minute later to confirm that the setting
has stuck, I find that once again it's re-set to its apparent default
of read-only. Grrrrr.

This should not be hard. (I'm happy to grunt and root around in a DOS
shell if that's what it takes, write a bat files, whatever.)

 

[Wesley Vogel]

[[Unlike the Read-only attribute for a file, the Read-only attribute for a
folder is typically ignored by Windows, Windows components and accessories,
and other programs.]]

Cannot View or Change the Read-Only or System Attribute of Folders
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326549