Read-only weirdness, different from that described in "All folders

[brosenau[]

Hi everyone,
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice for this problem:

The situation: I'm using several computers in our lab, all running Win
XP. Two different pieces of software we use (one in-house, that
basically creates and writes to a text file, written in C++, very simple
I/O stuff; and the other one a commercial piece of software) are having
issues on two and only two of our computers. Things work fine on the
other computers.

The problem: Folders are marked with the "read-only" attribute. This
attribute cannot be changed either using explorer or attrib (the
solution described in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549 doesn't
work); there is no error message, but the folder is immediately set back
to read-only. This seems to be by design in Windows XP. Our problem is
that our two pieces of software cannot create files in those folders.
This software works fine on other XP boxes in the lab, so we think this
is not simply these programs not liking the way XP uses the read-only
attribute with regard to folders.

The other computers in the lab all seem to work fine with this software;
we're wondering if there might have been an update to Windows that
resulted in this problem that may have been installed on those two
computers only. One has SP2, the other only SP1. The other computers
in the lab (on which everything works) are also a mix of SP2 and SP1
machines, however, so SP2 doesn't seem to be the root of the problem.

Can anybody suggest any causes/solutions/workarounds?

Thanks!

Ben

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

It's the XP way to show 'ownership' You don't really pay attention to the
attrib, but rather to Permissions for the folder. (This attrib is NOT going
away in an XP system)

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421

 

[brosenau[]

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to help. I
don't think this is the problem... any other ideas?

Ben

It's the XP way to show 'ownership' You don't really pay attention to the
attrib, but rather to Permissions for the folder. (This attrib is NOT going
away in an XP system)

HOW TO Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q308421

Hi everyone,
I'm hoping someone can offer some advice for this problem:

The situation: I'm using several computers in our lab, all running Win XP.
Two different pieces of software we use (one in-house, that basically
creates and writes to a text file, written in C++, very simple I/O stuff;
and the other one a commercial piece of software) are having issues on two
and only two of our computers. Things work fine on the other computers.

The problem: Folders are marked with the "read-only" attribute. This
attribute cannot be changed either using explorer or attrib (the solution
described in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549 doesn't work); there
is no error message, but the folder is immediately set back to read-only.
This seems to be by design in Windows XP. Our problem is that our two
pieces of software cannot create files in those folders. This software
works fine on other XP boxes in the lab, so we think this is not simply
these programs not liking the way XP uses the read-only attribute with
regard to folders.

The other computers in the lab all seem to work fine with this software;
we're wondering if there might have been an update to Windows that
resulted in this problem that may have been installed on those two
computers only. One has SP2, the other only SP1. The other computers in
the lab (on which everything works) are also a mix of SP2 and SP1
machines, however, so SP2 doesn't seem to be the root of the problem.

Can anybody suggest any causes/solutions/workarounds?

Thanks!

Ben