Re: Granting access to NTFS drive

Adeel wrote:
I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default
'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the
drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional).

Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to
access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator
users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it.
How do I go about doing this?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
I'm not 100% sure this would work - but - you would need to grant
everyone their rights back first..

Then connect to machine (1) - grant the admin full rights to every
file/folder.
Then connect to machine (2) - grant the admin there full rights to
every file/folder.
Remove the "everyone" group.

Now see what happens. It could be that when looking at file/folder
permissions on one machine - you see an unknown-SID that has
permissions. If so - then the same should be true when you connect
to the other machine - just a different unknown SID.

Adeel wrote:
Thanks for your response Shenan.

I have XP home on the second machine... and as a result there is no
security tab. So I can't grant full control to the admin account on
it.

What do I do now?

I think Steven's response may work.. Give it a shot.
(Although - if you boot into safe mode - you have the security tab.)

Steven L Umbach wrote:
Just add administrators to the access control list. Then any
administrator [built in administrator or member of administrators
group] on either computer can access the files. --- Steve

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