All Folders Read-Only

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Windows XP Pro
IIS
MS Visual Studio 2002
Dual Xeon 2.4G
1G DDR


Hello everyone!

(Creepy thing #1)
Fresh off of building a new machine, I finally got most
of my software installed and was working on some default
aspx files in Visual Studio when I suddenly discovered
(by a lovely error msg and a little investigation) that
every directory on the machine had been marked read only.
Attempting to change the mark on individual directories
was useless because as soon as the properties dlg is
closed and opened again the read-only box is marked
again.

I had been playing with some of the policy settings
ealier, but I don't think that these are the direct cause
because the problem didn't appear until several hours
later.

Much more likey to blame, I had been tinkering with the
NT file permissions for individual files and folders both
for the wwwroot and those contained in it. However, I
don't see how this could cause the read-only setting to
get transfered to wwwroot's parents.

(Creepy thing #2)
After googling a bit, I found that at least a couple of
other people had run into similar problems, but all of
the postings I could find ended without resolution. So,
having relatively little to lose, I just decided to
reformat and do a fresh installation.

Ah the horror! Fresh installation, read-only's still
checked. Hmm, ACL's? Well, I tried again, this time
formatting from floppy... No luck... and again,
formatting to FAT32 then back to NTFS... still no luck. I
even tried a different HD.

So now I'm just relatively confused and wondering if
maybe I've just been living in some alternate dimension
where read only directories were not part of a typical
windows installation...

Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

Thrasy
 
The checkbox for read-only in the user interface is only
a switch used to set/unset the attribute on contrained files.
To access and/or change the read-only attribute on a folder
you must use the attrib command at a cmd prompt.

Why do you feel that the attribute is a problem ?
It is more likely to be an NTFS permissions issue.
 
This is an interesting question, and I can see how it could
cause a problem for you.

If you have replaced the hard drive, I would say this
prettymuch eliminated hardware as being an issue.

The next thing you need to look at is your installation
medium. Where did you obtain this copy of Windows XP, and
are you installing it from over a network share. Perhaps
this is a customized preinstallation that is causing the
problem.

I hope this helps, and I am curious to see what the answer is.

-Rob
 
Rob Najuch said:
This is an interesting question, and I can see how it could
cause a problem for you.

If you have replaced the hard drive, I would say this
prettymuch eliminated hardware as being an issue.

The next thing you need to look at is your installation
medium. Where did you obtain this copy of Windows XP, and
are you installing it from over a network share. Perhaps
this is a customized preinstallation that is causing the
problem.

I hope this helps, and I am curious to see what the answer is.

-Rob
Click to expand...

The answer is that this is how it is, as mentioned in my reply
to this post some hours earlier to your post.
 
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