Re: Peculiar permissions problem

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:50:32 +0000, Nightowl <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 14 Mar 2007:

You disabled Simple File Sharing on all computers, which says that all computers
are running XP Pro? Right? Did you disable the Guest account, properly, on all
computers?

Thank you, Chuck, for the reply and for the links; I had come across
your website while I was searching and found it very helpful.

Sorry, I did mean to say XP Pro as well as SP2 :-) I can't check myself
as the friend is a couple of hundred miles away, but I'm sure he would
have disabled Guest. He knows a lot more about networking than I do and
is at heart a Linux man and fanatical about security.

As I said, he's had the network running for about three years with
computer 1 unable to share 2's folders and swore he'd checked all the
permissions many times. When I struck lucky with suggesting giving Joe
full control, he was more than ever convinced that Windows networking is
a black art :-)

Well, I appreciate the feedback about my website, but if you truly read and
believed what I said there, you will understand that Windows Networking is not
at all a black art. It is coldly logical.

If you have 2 computers running XP Pro, with disk drives formatted with NTFS,
network access from one to the other absolutely requires either Guest, or a
non-Guest, account properly activated for network access.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html

Either:
1) The disk partition is formatted with FAT.
2) The Guest account is activated for network access.
3) A non-Guest account is activated for network access, with matching (or blank)
passwords.

So you can say what you will - it's your (your friend's) computer after all.
But if you want to solve the mystery / fix the problem, go with an open mind and
you will find the answer.

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.
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