Re: I no longer have a "Security Tab" after updating to SP1

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox@mvps.org)
Date: 01/13/03


From: "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:19:56 -0500


If you're running XP Home, then you won't see it, unless you log in via Safe
Mode as the built in Administrator account. For XP Pro, go to Windows
Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, View and scroll down the list to Use simple
file sharing. Uncheck it.

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"Mike Wade" <ptroradr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3df601c2bb44$de0fc1a0$d3f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA10...
> All of my hard drives are NTFS and I can look at them from
> another computer in my network and see the permissions on
> them.  But there is no longer a tab in the properties
> dialoge to change/set user/group permissions like there
> used to be... am I just not seeing it?  I have done pretty
> extensive work with Win2K systems but this is my first XP
> one I was under the impression they were similar


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