URGENT Folders on NTWK Drives ReadOnly -Can't Change

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PLEASE Help! I have 2 computers running XP sp2 and I installed a RAID on one
computer and copied all my data from 2 other machines to the RAID drive. All
the FOLDERS are marked READ ONLY and I am unable to change this on the XP
machine with the RAID drive. I am unable to modify any of the files on the
RAID drive from other 2 computers on the network. I took it to a tech at a
computer store and he spend 4 hours on it without success. Please
help....Ask me the questions you need to determine what to do to fix this.
Thanks in advance,
 
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PLEASE Help! I have 2 computers running XP sp2 and I installed a RAID on one
computer and copied all my data from 2 other machines to the RAID drive. All
the FOLDERS are marked READ ONLY and I am unable to change this on the XP
machine with the RAID drive. I am unable to modify any of the files on the
RAID drive from other 2 computers on the network. I took it to a tech at a
computer store and he spend 4 hours on it without success. Please
help....Ask me the questions you need to determine what to do to fix this.
Thanks in advance,
 
GSHumphrey said:
PLEASE Help! I have 2 computers running XP sp2 and I installed a RAID on
one
computer and copied all my data from 2 other machines to the RAID drive.
All
the FOLDERS are marked READ ONLY and I am unable to change this on the XP
machine with the RAID drive. I am unable to modify any of the files on the
RAID drive from other 2 computers on the network. I took it to a tech at
a
computer store and he spend 4 hours on it without success. Please
help....Ask me the questions you need to determine what to do to fix this.
Thanks in advance,
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Many if not all folders are marked read only, and believing that this is the
source of a problem is mistaken.

Your problem is likely to be misconfigured iinternet file sharing or
inappropriate file permissions.

By the way, what did the tech say he did during those 4 hours?

Jim
 
Okay, I did discover folders are read only. What is happening is that all
the data on the Raid drive cannot be modified. The raid drive is on a pc
without MS Office so I cannot open the files on that PC. I have 3 other PC's
on the network all are XP.
Before I had the Raid installed I had a mirro of 2 drives with my data on it.
I had the Raid installed and all the data moved to it and then I copied more
data from 2 PC's to the Raid. I have shared it just like the old mirror and
none of the PC's on the network can open the files for editing. XLS files
come up the the Read Only or Notify or Cancel window. .DOC files cannot be
changed and saved.
JPG graphice files cannot be changed and saved while on the Raid.
The tech and I only could do a save as to the local c: and then modify. We
could not overwrite the files with a new version on the Raid.
We are very puzzled. Have you any ideas?
 
Okay, I did discover folders are read only. What is happening is that all
the data on the Raid drive cannot be modified. The raid drive is on a pc
without MS Office so I cannot open the files on that PC. I have 3 other PC's
on the network all are XP.
Before I had the Raid installed I had a mirro of 2 drives with my data on it.
I had the Raid installed and all the data moved to it and then I copied more
data from 2 PC's to the Raid. I have shared it just like the old mirror and
none of the PC's on the network can open the files for editing. XLS files
come up the the Read Only or Notify or Cancel window. .DOC files cannot be
changed and saved.
JPG graphice files cannot be changed and saved while on the Raid.
The tech and I only could do a save as to the local c: and then modify. We
could not overwrite the files with a new version on the Raid.
We are very puzzled. Have you any ideas?
 
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