Problem accessing server

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Joe Beda

I hope this is the right place to ask.

I have a Windows ME computer on a home network.

There is also a WinXP computer on this network.

I had no problems accessing files on WinXP from WinME until yesterday.
I had partitioned the hard drive from C: to C: and D:. I wanted to
Ghost the drive to D: while doing some experimenting with software.

After partitioning and before installing Ghost, I found that on the
WinME, I could not save a file on WinXP if the file already existed. I
could create and save the file. But after the first save, I could not
save again.

I could save the file as a new name. Trying from another computer, I
have been able to open, modify and save the file on the WinXP
computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can look to fix
whatever I inadvertently broke?

Thanks in advance

Joe
 
I hope this is the right place to ask.

I have a Windows ME computer on a home network.

There is also a WinXP computer on this network.

I had no problems accessing files on WinXP from WinME until yesterday.
I had partitioned the hard drive from C: to C: and D:. I wanted to
Ghost the drive to D: while doing some experimenting with software.

After partitioning and before installing Ghost, I found that on the
WinME, I could not save a file on WinXP if the file already existed. I
could create and save the file. But after the first save, I could not
save again.

I could save the file as a new name. Trying from another computer, I
have been able to open, modify and save the file on the WinXP
computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can look to fix
whatever I inadvertently broke?
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Joe,

Your terminology needs explanation. Is the existing file on the Windows ME, or
the Windows XP, computer? Which computer are you accessing locally, and which
remotely? Are you pushing the file to the other computer, or are you pulling it
from the other computer?

What you're reporting is a permissioning problem, where a file is created under
one account. The second account, which you're using, has authority (you should
hope) to take over the file, but it can't do so immediately.

You have to take control of the file first. How you do that may depend upon
which operating system the file is resident under right now. In Windows XP,
that's Properties - Security - Advanced - Owner. I won't swear that it will be
the same on Windows ME though.

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