Could someone please reply....

[Robert Gray]

I posted this before and got no response. I really don't know where to go
with this. Can someone please suggest something, even an alternate place to
look for an answer? -Thanks...

I have a problem with a XP Pro system running as a client to a W2KS server.
There are a number of user created folders on the C: drive that have a
little square in the Read-Only checkbox (under properties). The checkbox is
not greyed out. The folder is acting as if it is Read-Only. I need to turn
RO off. I can uncheck it (or unbutton it in this case), hit <OK> and get
the option to change only this folder or all subs (I get the same result
regardless of my choice). I hit <OK> and the RO checkbox is blanked out.
No check. No little square button. Just empty. I immediately check the
folder properties again and the square button is back!

The files inside the folder (Word docs) are not RO. If I create another
folder, elsewhere on the C: drive, it comes up with the RO square as well.

I have tried using the DOS Attrib command. No luck.

The user I am logged into is on the server domain. That user IS an
administrator of the local PC. I also tried logging in as a local user (who
is an administrator of the local PC). Same result.

What does that little square mean (other than the obvious - it is read
only). Why won't it go away!?

Thanks for your help...

- Robert

 

[Lem]

Robert:
I sympathize. I've also had posts here met with a deafening silence. It
probably means that no one has seen anything like your problem (or mine). I'm
relatively new to XP and NTFS, but this sounds like some problem with NTFS
permissions. Here are a few thoughts:

First of all, if the files are not read-only, why do you care what the folder
properties says? Is the user having problems creating and storing new files in
the folder, or in editing the files?

Is the folder in the root or within some other folder? Is it inheriting some
restrictive permission? You might want to take a look at
http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/592/toc.html

 

[Mike Brearley]

I posted this before and got no response. I really don't know where to go
with this. Can someone please suggest something, even an alternate place to
look for an answer? -Thanks...

I have a problem with a XP Pro system running as a client to a W2KS server.
There are a number of user created folders on the C: drive that have a
little square in the Read-Only checkbox (under properties). The checkbox is
not greyed out. The folder is acting as if it is Read-Only. I need to turn
RO off. I can uncheck it (or unbutton it in this case), hit <OK> and get
the option to change only this folder or all subs (I get the same result
regardless of my choice). I hit <OK> and the RO checkbox is blanked out.
No check. No little square button. Just empty. I immediately check the
folder properties again and the square button is back!

The files inside the folder (Word docs) are not RO. If I create another
folder, elsewhere on the C: drive, it comes up with the RO square as well.

I have tried using the DOS Attrib command. No luck.

The user I am logged into is on the server domain. That user IS an
administrator of the local PC. I also tried logging in as a local user (who
is an administrator of the local PC). Same result.

What does that little square mean (other than the obvious - it is read
only). Why won't it go away!?

Thanks for your help...

- Robert

This is by design. The files within the folder are not read-only and the
folder itself can be modified (name changed). Unless you have an old
program that is having problems with the read-only attribute, then there
isn't a problem. Are you actually having a problem, or just want to know
why the read-only was always checked?

Do a simple search on the subject read-only in this newsgroup and you'll
find many more explanations of this.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley