XP Pro Sharing and Security question

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Matthew

I'm on XP Pro and I am trying to set up my shared folder so that certain
user accounts have read only access to the files. From the Admin account
I've gone into the folder to sharing>permissions>add>object types> users
then selected just the user account I want to restrict but then I can't seem
to select just deny Change, when I click that it also selects deny read. But
even if I try selecting both deny read and deny change then log off and go
into that particular user account I still seem to have full access to
everything in the shared folder with no restrictions. What am I doing wrong?
 
I'm on XP Pro and I am trying to set up my shared folder so that
certain user accounts have read only access to the files. From the
Admin account I've gone into the folder to
sharing>permissions>add>object types> users then selected just the
user account I want to restrict but then I can't seem to select
just deny Change, when I click that it also selects deny read. But
even if I try selecting both deny read and deny change then log
off and go into that particular user account I still seem to have
full access to everything in the shared folder with no
restrictions. What am I doing wrong?
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As a first step, make sure that "Simple File Sharing" is disabled. If
it is enabled (default), then you authenticate as the "Guest" user no
matter what credentials you present. When disabled, you will get a
"Security" tab in addition to your "Sharing" tab under folder
properties.

"How to disable simple file sharing and how to set permissions on a
shared folder in Windows XP"
<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874>

HTH,
John
 
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