Re: READ-ONLY - pls. go away!

From: Bob Lundy (bob@lundy.ca)
Date: 01/07/03 

From: "Bob Lundy" <bob@lundy.ca>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 06:38:35 -0800

Thanks, it sounds like this is NOT going to help clear up
the problem, which is that other users on the LAN cannot
put files into the shared folder(s). They get a dialogue
telling them that the folder is marked Read-Only.

To setup (simple) sharing we just went to the folder, and
said "Share This". It worked fine the first day that we
set it up, and then one week later when I went back to the
customer, they were unable to drop files into the share
(s), and unable to make changes to files in the share(s).

We tried to create a new folder to share and got the same
(lack of) results.

Any good hints/tips/concrete_suggestions?

>-----Original Message-----
>The checkbox for Read-only on folders is not actually
>the read-only attribute of the folders. You must use
>the attrib command if you wish to get at the actual
attribute
>of folder objects.
>What this checkbox is on folders in the UI is a three
state
>box. It is normally in the intermediate state. You can
>change it to checked or to cleared, and when doing this
>it indicates that the read-only attribute should be set or
>cleared on all contained files. It then returns to its
norma
>intermediate state.
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"Bob Lundy" <bob@lundy.ca> wrote in message
>news:010b01c2b5a9$e8506ac0$d4f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA11...
>> WINXP_PRO on new DELLs, on a simple IP LAN. I Went in to
>> the customer a week before Xmas and setup a share
on "the
>> server". I then showed the customers how to access this
>> share from their PCs. All went well. We created a file
on
>> one of the "remote" PCs, dropped it on the share, and
>> could see it from all remotes and the server. We
created a
>> file on the server directly, and could read it from the
>> remotes. We setup permissions to allow the users to make
>> changes to some of these files, and it all performed
>> correctly.
>>
>> Then on Xmas Eve, I went in to see how they were doing.
>> All of the shares we created were set to "Read-Only". No
>> matter what I tried, I could NOT clear that.
>>
>> 1 - yes, logged in as the Administrator
>> 2 - yes, I tried "Simple File Sharing" both OFF and ON
>> 3 - Folder | Properties | clear Read-Only | Apply, but
it
>> just ignores me
>> 4 - tried creating new Folder, it automatically came up
as
>> read-Only and also would NOT clear
>>
>> Oh, what devilry is this?!
>
>
>.
>

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