Setting Creator/Owner to full control isn't remembered

[snowweb]

I've got a permissions related problem on XP Pro.

I'm trying to assign permissions to a folder in the 'Programs Folder' called 'Goldmine' but everytime I set full control for creator/owner and press apply, the ticks all disappear.

I'm logged on as a user with administrative rights.

I notice on the general tab of the 'Goldmine' folder that their is a greyed out tick in 'Read only' but where is that coming from? Could that be the cause of my problem?

Thanks

peter

 

[gpalmer711]

The CREATOR OWNER has special permissions to a folder, these give the owner full rights. You can change the owner by clicking the Advanced button on the Security Tab for a folder.

Also all folders will remain read only no matter how many times you try and change it. Take a look at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q326549

or

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;326549

for details

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308419&Product=winxp

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

Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[snowweb]

Thanks for that, I read the docs and used attrib -r -s c:\progra~1\goldmine at the command prompt. I appeared to accept the command and now when I view the folder properties I can remove the read only tick but when I go into the NTFS permissions it still will not remember if I set creator/owner to full control.

Any more ideas please? It seems to be the reason why I can't get Goldmine to run over the network using the XP machine as the server.

Thanks again

peter

 

[bcastner]

You would want to give the group Everyone and Guest the NTFS permissions of Full Control.

 

[snowweb]

Thanks bcastner,

Will give it a go tonight.

(I have to wait until close of business in South Africa and then access the machine using VNC from UK - what a pain!)

Will let you know.

peter