Shared files are read-only

[robertof]

I have 3 PCs on a LAN, one with XP Family, one with 2000, one with XP Pro. There are several identical accounts on each PC (same names, sames passwords). The drive C: of the XP Family machine is shared, and the box to allow network users to modify the shared files is checked. There are no firewalls enabled on any machines.

With one account, I can mount the drive on the XP Family machine and read and write to the files there without any problem. However, with another account (and I mean using the same account on all machines), when I open the files on the XP Family machine, they are opened as Read-only. The attributes of these files are NOT read-only or system.

There are so few things to configure on the XP side that I have run out of ideas. Can anyone help?

 

[bcastner]

There are folders that are by default not set to be used with Full permissions: These include the Shared Documents directory, intended for local console logons only; Program Files, and any user Profile folder.

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418

 

[robertof]

It's not a question of having defined the appropriate rights on the PC - I checked and the account concerned has full control. It seems, rather, as if the PC with the file does not recognize that the account on the other PC is the same as the owner of the folder and its files. But I do not know what else you can do other than make the account names and passwords the same.

 

[bcastner]

You are only the same user when logged on locally for some folders:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[robertof]

Are you saying that if I have a 2 PC network with no domains; an account on PC 1, called "bill", and an account on PC 2, called "bill" (both have the same password), that if I log on to PC 1 as "bill", and I mount a drive from PC 2, that my rights to the files on PC 2 are NOT the same as if I were logged on locally to PC 2?

In any case, the sharing still does work as expected for this one account, and I am not sure how to solve the problem.

 

[bcastner]

Remote user "bill"'s rights are not the same as the local console user Bill for certain directories. Please see my earlier link. Essentially Shared Documents, and profile folder, Program Files, and the %windir% folder are by default treated differently.