Re: Permission Problem

From: george (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:40:09 +0100

You presumable have reinstalled (after format :-)) )
Therefore you now have completely different users and groups defined (even
though in name they appear to be the same).
Why? Because a user or a group is identified by Windows through a so called
SID (Security Identifier) and not the name (like Administrator).
Permissions are assigned for SIDs and not user / groupnames.
So your new users (different SID) have no permissions to the old folders.
Go into properties of those folders and either assign permissions for your
new users, or do a Take Ownership of those folders.

hth

george

"Keith" <@.> wrote in message news:e2BTPePHFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Formatted my laptop and desktop PC this weekend and now I have a
> permission problem.
>
> Both machines are XP Pro SP2.
>
> PC has two users User 1 and User 2 (both users are local admins)
>
> Laptop has one user User 1 (user is a local admin)
>
> I cant access the Profile folders on the PC from my Laptop even though the
> user (User 1) is present on both machine and in the local admin group on
> both machines. Both machine are in the same workgroup.
>
> Any ideas? Have I missed something really simple? This worked before I
> formatted and I don't remember doing anything else last time round.
>
> Thanks
>

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