setup let others read files?

[Ron Hardin]

When XP Home asks if you want others to be able to read your files,
is it asking about encrypting the disk, or just setting permissions
(or whatever the windows equivalent is) to ``read'' for others?

 

[Guest]

Yes, it is, and yes, it is.

 

[Nepatsfan]

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When XP Home asks if you want others to be able to read your
files,
is it asking about encrypting the disk, or just setting
permissions
(or whatever the windows equivalent is) to ``read'' for
others?

It's not clear from your question exactly what you're referring
to but it's definitely not encryption. File encryption is not
available in Windows XP Home Edition.

The only thing I can think of may be what happens when you add
a password to an account that's a Computer Administrator.
Windows will ask if you want to make your files private. Making
your files private means that none of the other accounts on
your computer will be able to access any files within your
folder in C:\Documents and Settings. The same can be
accomplished later by right clicking your My Documents folder,
clicking on the Sharing tab, and checking "Make this folder
private".

If that's not what you're referring to, post back with details
about exactly what you're doing when XP asks if you want others
to be able to read your files.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Patrick Keenan]

When XP Home asks if you want others to be able to read your files,
is it asking about encrypting the disk

Encryption is not available in XP Home.

In XP PRO, it's easy to invoke, but it isn't always clear that you *must*
back up the account certificates and verify them and store them securely.
If you don't, and anything happens to the Windows install, your data is gone
forever.

, or just setting permissions
(or whatever the windows equivalent is) to ``read'' for others?

It's just permissions. You can override this from any Administrator level
account, in Safe Mode. In Pro, you don't have to be in Safe Mode.

HTH
-pk

 

[Ron Hardin]

It's just permissions. You can override this from any Administrator level
account, in Safe Mode. In Pro, you don't have to be in Safe Mode.

Good, thanks. Actually I can set permissions with Cygwin without safe mode,
at least from my single-administrator/user account that I've set up. In
practice this amounts to turning the read permissions back on after various apps
that leave them off or variously screwed up, like *.exe's don't copy with the
execute permission set over the LAN, for some reason, so you always have to fix
them.

I don't know how anybody lives with XP without Cygwin.