Re: Suggestion wanted

On 30 Mar 2007 17:00:06 GMT, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers
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Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2007 13:10:13 GMT, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
Terry <nonewhatsoeveratnonewhatsoever.cam> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2007 01:05:10 GMT, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
Of course you need admin privileges to be able to grant access there.
Log in as an administrator and grant read access to your user.
Better: add a new group "logwatch", add your user to this group, and
grant read access on the logs to that group.

I was logged on as admin, but still wasn't allowed to grant access. Is
there another way besides going thru sharing security?

Please elaborate. How exactly are you "not allowed to grant access"? If
you have a vanilla XP Pro some stuff is hidden by default, but that can
be changed through the Explorer options.

I log into the admin account, go to the logfile folder in sys32 and
open the sharing menu. The lower options are grayed out saying it
can't be shared because it is a operating system folder.

The "Sharing" tab is for granting remote access. That's not what you
want. You need the "Security" tab, which is probably hidden (that's for
some obscure reason the default).

I don't have an english version of Windows at hand here, so I may get
the labels wrong, but what you need to do is this: go to the Explorer
options, select the "View" tab, and disable everything that says
"simple", "easy" or "hide". After you click "OK" you should get an
additional tab "Security" in the properties dialog of files and folders.
There you can grant access to users and groups.

cu
59cobalt
Thanks for being so professional. As for Sebastian, I have high hopes
for him. If he would just slow down, think, and understand that if I
knew it I wouldn't be here asking questions.

I had disabled simple sharing long ago. You started me in the right
direction. According to Microsoft, the security tab for these types
of folders is disabled and can't be turned on when part of a
workgroup. Perhaps it is time to think of another way or program.
Perhaps it is a part of some firewall that I am not familiar with.
The windows firewall logs but with very limited information.

.

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