Re: External drive access rights?

You have Simplified File Sharing turned on. See my other post on how to turn it off. If it is, then this drive is FAT32 and there should be no permissions issues, at all.

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"charttricks" <charttricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CE076A2B-C797-4641-AC96-3EC6FA1217CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Steve. unfortunately this information only applies to files and
folders, and not external drives. When I right click and select properties
on this drive, here is what I see --
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/zoogod/Sea.png




"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

Does the user in question have read/list/execute/write permissions to the
drive and is not a member of any group that has deny permissions? If unsure
of how to check and change NTFS permissions see the link below.

Steve

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

"charttricks" <charttricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DAD388F0-BD2B-4266-BFE3-38E46F2B52FF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
WinXP Pro all updates/patches.
Seagate 160gig external HD formatted in NTFS

Problem: External drive can not be written to from my user account (access
is denied) but external drive *can* be written to from my Admin account.

I have tried giving my User account Admin rights and THEN formatting the
drive in NTFS, to see if that would make any difference. It does not. As
soon as I remove Admin rights from my User account (after formatting
drive)
the problem is back again.

Thanks for any ideas.



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