Re: Windows Media player(transfering files between user accnts.)
From: papajim#1 (papajim1_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/12/04
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:17:02 -0700
I tried what you said, however, when I rebooted and selected safe mode, the
administrator icon and my icon both came up. The admin. icon (picture) had no
window for typing a password, but when I select it anyway, the computer
freezes up.
Cheers
"Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/Us" wrote:
> You can transfer them but they may need to take ownership to access them.
> Note: this would apply to the files you have transferred to their user
> account and ownership should be taken from their accounts as follows:
>
> Note, file ownership and permissions supersede administrator rights. How
> you resolve it depends upon which version of XP you are running.
>
> XP-Home
>
> Unfortunately, XP Home using NTFS is essentially hard wired for "Simple File
> Sharing" at system level.
>
> However, you can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot, and start
> hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the
> options is Safe Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's
> password. This is not your administrator account, rather it is the
> machine's administrator account for which users are asked to create a
> password during setup.
>
> If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press
> enter.
>
> Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to
> the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect it
> and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change,
> move on to the next step.
>
> Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security
> tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged
> on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and
> ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of
> the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in
> the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection:
> "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects," select it as well.
>
> Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when
> you log back on as that user.
>
> XP-Pro
>
> If you have XP Pro, temporarily change the limited account to
> administrative. First, go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, select Folder
> Options, go to the View tab and be sure "Use Simple File Sharing" is not
> selected. If it is, deselect it and click apply and ok.
>
> If you wish everything in a specific folder to be accessible to a user,
> right click the folder, select properties, go to the Security tab, click
> Advanced, go to the Owner tab,
> select the user you wish to have access, at the bottom of the box, you
> should see a check box for "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects,"
> place a check in the box and click apply and ok.
>
> The user should now be able to perform necessary functions on files in the
> folder even as a limited account. If not, make it an admin account again,
> right click the folder, select Properties, go to the Security tab and be
> sure the user is listed in the user list. If not, click add and type the
> user name in the appropriate box, be sure the user has all the necessary
> permissions checked in the permission list below the user list, click apply
> and ok.
>
> That should do it and allow whatever access you desire for that folder even
> in a limited account.
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Solomon MS-MVP
> Windows Shell/User
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>
> "papajim#1" <papajim1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7FCEEB5A-930D-4A89-8F97-7437A46DA738@microsoft.com...
> >I am the administrator. Ihave windows media player version 9, with windows
> >xp
> > home operating system.Can I transfer my music files to other user accnts.
> > on
> > this same computer, who do not administrator accnts.? If so, how? OR do
> > they
> > have to build their own from scratch?
> > Thanks in advance.....Jim
>
>
>
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