XP Drive Read Only

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What makes a drive read-only in a peer to peer network using XP Pro? We have
five computers. Four computers will not let you write to their drives within
Documents and Settings, but one does. The one that does has had XP for about
a year, the others just upgraded to XP. Any help would be appreciated.
 
What makes a drive read-only in a peer to peer network using XP Pro? We have
five computers. Four computers will not let you write to their drives within
Documents and Settings, but one does. The one that does has had XP for about
a year, the others just upgraded to XP. Any help would be appreciated.
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Are the computers using Simple, or Advanced File Sharing? Guest, or non-Guest
authentication? If Simple, any share can be set to Read-only, or Read-Write; if
Advanced, that plus a few more possibilities.

If Advanced File Sharing, you also have both the Sharing - Permissions, and
Security, settings to consider.
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DSmith said:
What makes a drive read-only in a peer to peer network using XP Pro? We
have five computers. Four computers will not let you write to their drives
within Documents and Settings, but one does. The one that does has had XP
for about a year, the others just upgraded to XP. Any help would be
appreciated.
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This is the default security permissions on XP installed on an NTFS drive.

If you contact such a machine using Simple File Sharing over the network,
you are connecting as Guest.
The only permissions Guest has on the 'Docs and Setting' folder are
read-only, granted to the 'Everyone' group.

The machine you *are* able to write on is probably installed on a FAT32
drive which has no permissions ( or someone has altered the permissions if
it's an NTFS drive. )


The fix is to either:
Stop using Simple File Sharing, and set up explicit user accounts,
then grant those users access to the folder.

Or

Edit the existing permissions to permit Guest 'Change' access to the folders
you want.
R-click the folder, select Sharing and Security;
Security Tab;
Select 'Everyone';
Note that it's Read and Execute.
Add 'Change', and OK your way out.
 
Thanks, we got it to work.

Ron Lowe said:
This is the default security permissions on XP installed on an NTFS drive.

If you contact such a machine using Simple File Sharing over the network,
you are connecting as Guest.
The only permissions Guest has on the 'Docs and Setting' folder are
read-only, granted to the 'Everyone' group.

The machine you *are* able to write on is probably installed on a FAT32
drive which has no permissions ( or someone has altered the permissions if
it's an NTFS drive. )


The fix is to either:
Stop using Simple File Sharing, and set up explicit user accounts,
then grant those users access to the folder.

Or

Edit the existing permissions to permit Guest 'Change' access to the
folders you want.
R-click the folder, select Sharing and Security;
Security Tab;
Select 'Everyone';
Note that it's Read and Execute.
Add 'Change', and OK your way out.
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