"Peter Bates" said:
When I setup a Win XP Pro machine as file server and open
a MS Work file on it through the network on a 98 or XP
machine the file opens as read-only? How do I stop
this ??? Please help
On Windows XP, right click the shared folder that contains the MS Work
file. Click Sharing and Security, then put a check mark in the box
that says "Allow network users to change my files".
WARNING: Those steps give other computers full access (read, write,
delete) to the shared folder. If, while sitting at another computer
on the network, you delete a file from the shared folder, it doesn't
go into the Recycle Bin on either computer. The file is deleted, with
no way to recover it.
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