NTFS vs FAT32

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I have two PCs, each with Win XP Pro, networked together. Until last night, all drives were FAT32. I want eventually to convert them all to NTFS, so last night I converted a shared drive on one of the PCs to NTFS. The problem now is that, although the other PC can still see the shared drive and read its contents, I am unable to write to it across the network. Is this behaviour normal? I checked the sharing status of the converted drive, and nothing seems to have changed

TIA
Peter
 
The root-cause has nothing really to do with the type of file
permission. That is an issue for the local operating system to deal
with. What changed how the permissions for access to the NTFS
partitions have changed. Check the permissions and grant the privileges
that your remote use needs.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
Thanks. I'll investigate further and let you know

Pete

----- Rob Schneider wrote: ----

The root-cause has nothing really to do with the type of file
permission. That is an issue for the local operating system to deal
with. What changed how the permissions for access to the NTFS
partitions have changed. Check the permissions and grant the privileges
that your remote use needs

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know

rm




PeterC wrote
 
I checked the sharing settings again - all looked okay.
So I removed sharing from that partition, rebooted, and
then set the sharing settings back on again. Hey presto,
everything back to normal!

Thanks again,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
The root-cause has nothing really to do with the type of file
permission. That is an issue for the local operating system to deal
with. What changed how the permissions for access to the NTFS
partitions have changed. Check the permissions and grant the privileges
that your remote use needs.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
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together. Until last night, all drives were FAT32. I want
eventually to convert them all to NTFS, so last night I
converted a shared drive on one of the PCs to NTFS. The
problem now is that, although the other PC can still see
the shared drive and read its contents, I am unable to
write to it across the network. Is this behaviour normal?
I checked the sharing status of the converted drive, and
nothing seems to have changed.
 
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