Shared drives and read-only

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Brian

I found the Microsoft article (328065) that talkes about
this. Basically if you setup sharing under the Properties
dialog box, then it gives everyone read-only permissions.
I am also assuming that this is what is setting the Read-
Only box when you go to Properties. This is suppose to be
corrected by using the New File Share Wizard.

My question are:
1) Does the Read-Only box get checked because of the way
sharing was originally setup?

2) How do you correct it once it is setup this way?

I am needing to share the root of the C drive with a name
so that it can be seen on the network.

Thank you in advance, any help will be gladly appreciated,
Brian
 
Hello Brian,

To answer your first question, the Read Only option for Everyone is checked
because of security enhancements in SP1. It is not corrected by using the
New File Share Wizard, the behavior is just different by default.

To share the C: drive, simply create a new share of this by doing the
following -

1. Open My computer and right click on the C: drive to choose Properties
2. Click on the Sharing tab and click the New Share button on the bottom
of the window.
3. You can now give the share any name you like and set the permissions.

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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