Read-Only permission on file XP Home Workgroup

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I have two Machines networked through a workgroup both running XP Home SP2.
I need to access a couple of database files on one machine over this network
but they are always read-only. I need to be able to write to these files.
Is this symptomatic of SFS? If this is the case I have seen tweaks elsewhere
in this forum and can proceed down this route. I hesitate as they are not
"official" as I understand it.

tia Redapples
 
BTW: you can access the NTFS permissions tab within Home Edition by booting
your system into Safe Mode.... Of course, this assumes you are running the
NTFS file system.

FE
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I have two Machines networked through a workgroup both running XP Home SP2.
I need to access a couple of database files on one machine over this network
but they are always read-only. I need to be able to write to these files.
Is this symptomatic of SFS? If this is the case I have seen tweaks elsewhere
in this forum and can proceed down this route. I hesitate as they are not
"official" as I understand it.

tia Redapples
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Simple file sharing has nothing to do with the problem.

Right-click the shared disk or folder, click "Sharing and Security",
and make sure that "Allow network users to change my files" is
checked.

Another possible problem is that the first computer has the file open
when the second computer tries to access the file. That would cause
it to open as read-only on the second computer, regardless of the
permissions.
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Neither of these are the issue. The "Allow network users to change my files
option" is selected. The file is not open by a user on the other machine,
the machines are next to each other so this is easy to check. I still
suspect simple file sharing, though I note that irregardless of my attempts
to make the contents of the shared folder read write the consistently return
to a read only state. Much more likely from this and other threads is that I
need level 5 permission on the folder and files as detailed in the link
posted by Fatal_exception.
 
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