Access Denied to Shared Documents Folder

[hotshot]

Windows XP Home.
User account with administrator privilege.

I suddenly appear to have *only* "read" access to the Shared Documents
folder, i.e. I cannot create new folders/files in it or delete files from
it. For example, if I try to create a new folder using the right-click menu
I get the message "Unable to create the folder 'New Folder'. Access is
Denied."

I have the Shared Documents folder shared on my home network. Removing the
share does not help.

Ran a disk scan which reported and "fixed" two bad clusters, but that didn't
help either.

Can anyone help?

 

[Ron Bogart]

In

Windows XP Home.
User account with administrator privilege.

I suddenly appear to have *only* "read" access to the Shared Documents
folder, i.e. I cannot create new folders/files in it or delete files
from it. For example, if I try to create a new folder using the
right-click menu I get the message "Unable to create the folder 'New
Folder'. Access is Denied."

I have the Shared Documents folder shared on my home network.
Removing the share does not help.

Ran a disk scan which reported and "fixed" two bad clusters, but that
didn't help either.

Can anyone help?

It may be an ownership issue.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

 

[hotshot]

Ron,
Thanks to your help, I seemed to have solved the problem.
Had to go into safe mode as described in the KB reference. Had to change
both ownership and permissions. Wasn't sure what the correct values should
be, but have set owner to "everyone" and permissions to "full control". No
idea how these got messed up in the first place.
Thanks again,
hotshot

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[Ron Bogart]

In

Ron,
Thanks to your help, I seemed to have solved the problem.
Had to go into safe mode as described in the KB reference. Had to
change both ownership and permissions. Wasn't sure what the correct
values should be, but have set owner to "everyone" and permissions to
"full control". No idea how these got messed up in the first place.
Thanks again,
hotshot

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Glad it helped. Thanks for posting back and good luck with the rest of
Windows. 8^)