Folder properties

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My computer has one drive and two partitions: C and D. It is running
Windows XP Pro under domain administrator account. I notice that both C and
D are shared according to Properties -> Sharing. However, the drive C and D
are not shared to anyone. In addition, all folders under C and D have
Read-only attribute. Again, it is untrue and I can write anything on both C
and D drives. They are very confused to me and can anyone advise what they
mean accurately.

Thanks,

Ray
 
Ray said:
My computer has one drive and two partitions: C and D. It is running
Windows XP Pro under domain administrator account. I notice that both C
and D are shared according to Properties -> Sharing. However, the drive C
and D are not shared to anyone. In addition, all folders under C and D
have Read-only attribute. Again, it is untrue and I can write anything on
both C and D drives. They are very confused to me and can anyone advise
what they mean accurately.

Thanks,

Ray
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The read-only attribute is normal for folders and doesn't mean anything.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326549 Are you sure it's checked, or is
it a solid box? This means different things.

On Windows XP Pro, all hard drives are shared by default, but only
administrators can get access. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314984 if you want
to change this (if other people on your local network have admin rights to
your machine, they can turn it back on anyway so you aren't really securing
anything.)

So basically, both of these things are normal =)
 
Colin,

Thanks for your useful information.
Are you sure it's checked, or is it a solid box? This means different
things.
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You are right that it is a solid box. What does it mean?

Thanks,

Ray
 
Ray said:
Colin,

Thanks for your useful information.


You are right that it is a solid box. What does it mean?

Thanks,

Ray
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In this case it means that the item is neither read-only or not
read-only -- basically, that setting is not meaningful when placed on a
folder.
 
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