permissions

[no_one]

WIN7 seems as bad as vista for clocking the user from doing various
operations. Just today the wife tried to save a file to a shared
external drive on my computer. She got a message about not having
permission. How can I stop all of the various levels of permissions.
In our case they are not required and just get in the way. TIA

Bill
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[Big Steel]

WIN7 seems as bad as vista for clocking the user from doing various
operations. Just today the wife tried to save a file to a shared
external drive on my computer. She got a message about not having
permission. How can I stop all of the various levels of permissions.
In our case they are not required and just get in the way. TIA

The shared drive or folder doesn't have permissions set for the
remote user to save a file. You have to set the user's permissions on
the share. You can create the same user account on your machine that
the remote user is using on her machine.

If you open your computer to full permissions by a remote user, that
means the entire machine is open to attack and malware can spread
from her machine to your machine and infect it.

You can set the folder on the share to be based on her user id. Then
there is another area on the share, a button off the property page,
where you must set the user id's permission on the share itself. You
should only have a remote user have access to the file share and no
other areas on the machine's drive.


<http://www.networksteve.com/windows/topic.php/Setting_up_File_Share_Ac
cess_Restrictions/?TopicId=25598&Posts=4>

The above is a good article. Create the account and password your
wife uses on her machine on your machine and set the permissions on
the share for the account.

I think what I told you on how to set permissions on the share
itself, which is an underlying security of the share above a file or
folder on the share can only be done with the professional versions
of the O/S.

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

The shared drive or folder doesn't have permissions set for the remote
user to save a file. You have to set the user's permissions on the share.
You can create the same user account on your machine that the remote user
is using on her machine.

If you open your computer to full permissions by a remote user, that means
the entire machine is open to attack and malware can spread from her
machine to your machine and infect it.

You can set the folder on the share to be based on her user id. Then there
is another area on the share, a button off the property page, where you
must set the user id's permission on the share itself. You should only
have a remote user have access to the file share and no other areas on the
machine's drive.


<http://www.networksteve.com/windows/topic.php/Setting_up_File_Share_Ac
cess_Restrictions/?TopicId=25598&Posts=4>

The above is a good article. Create the account and password your wife
uses on her machine on your machine and set the permissions on the share
for the account.

I think what I told you on how to set permissions on the share itself,
which is an underlying security of the share above a file or folder on
the share can only be done with the professional versions of the O/S.

Is it not possible to just allow "Everyone" Full Control?

 

[Steel]

Is it not possible to just allow "Everyone" Full Control?

I guess you don't care about safe hex computing practices.


Anyway, screen # 6 shows when you are trying add a user, like your
wife's account if you created your wife's account on your machine or
user group, like the Everyone. Screen #6 acts the same way if trying to
take ownership or adding a user, which is check the name entered. Is it
in the system. If it comes back underlined after using the 'Check Name'
button, it's valid and you can use it.

http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to...sions-to-access-files-folder-in-windows-7.htm

You should do it on the file share only and not the entire <C> drive.