XP Home: how do I manage NTFS permissions

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Keith-Earl

Just bought two new DELL Dim 3000 running XP Home. I have always run Pro (or
200 or NT) and have difficulty with Home's idea of simple file sharing.

How do I gain access to the Properties...Security tab in XP home? I need to
grant a "limited access" account the ability to write to a folder and it's
subfolders.

Many thanks

Keith
 
How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties?
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm

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Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Just bought two new DELL Dim 3000 running XP Home. I have always run Pro (or
| 200 or NT) and have difficulty with Home's idea of simple file sharing.
|
| How do I gain access to the Properties...Security tab in XP home? I need to
| grant a "limited access" account the ability to write to a folder and it's
| subfolders.
|
| Many thanks
|
| Keith
 
Thanks Carey. I am really comfortable with this:
Third, if you're running XP Home, Simple File Sharing is enforced by default
and cannot be disabled. You must boot the computer into Safe Mode and log
in with the Administrator account, in order to see the Security tab. A work
around for XP Home, so that you don't have to enter Safe Mode, can be found
here.

Just to be clear, I do not have "the" Administrator account, only an account
"MyAccount" with full admin rights. When I went into Safe mode I did not see
the tab. Where should I look?

This second option is a little scary. Doug suggests we load an NT 4 Utility
on XP? Not sure if I want to do that.
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm
 
I am having the same issue and I tried to go to the link. It goes to the NT
page and has the links but they do not work. Do you know of another way I can
get this file to download for setting permissions in XP Home?

Thank you
 
Mike said:
I am having the same issue and I tried to go to the link. It goes to
the NT page and has the links but they do not work. Do you know of
another way I can get this file to download for setting permissions in
XP Home?

Thank you
Click to expand...

Try just going to the main page - http://www.dougknox.com/index.html and
from there click on the link for Doug's Security Console.

Malke
 
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