Shared Documents

[marcholmes]

XP Pro being used.

Shared Documents folder pre-existed from build. Copied some files in there from another drive.

I can change them, even though the read-only flag is ticked (if I remove it, it comes back).

Yet the wife, another super-user, can only read the files, no update allowed.

Why?

 

[bcastner]

Two-part answer:

. The read-only flag on the folder under XP means little more than that there is a desktop.ini in place for the folder. It does not mean "read-only" as in older versions of Windows:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;326549

. Because the folder was created from a previous installation of Windows, there might be some issues with its ownership attributes. This is easily ammended by you:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q308/4/21.asp&NoWebContent=1

Note: despite its name, the 'Shared Documents' folder is intended for common storage by users of one machine, and not as a network folder. Again, ammend the access priviliges to change this.