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| | Permission Woes I really can't keep up with permissions in Vista. Permissions for other users of the computer vs. permissions for network users when sharing files - I'm lost. And I must've done something horrible, because somehow I've slowed explorer down to a crawl. Basically, it seems everything is "shared" with "all users." Whenever I try to move or delete something from my C: drive, it asks if I'm sure (because it's shared) and then takes a ridiculous amount of time to do. It takes about a half-hour to delete an empty folder from the desktop - literally! Even then, it sometimes denies me permission to delete things, even though I'm the ONLY administrator and have turned off UAC completely. Secondly, programs create and delete temp files and folders in the background as always, but suddenly I'm asked permission when a temporary folder is about to be deleted by a background process - maddening! What did I do? Is there any way to reset permissions? I'm hoping that the full version of Vista will give me a clean slate, but I'm afraid that the permissions are stored in the files and simply transferring them when I get the full version will just transfer my problem as well. When I right-click folders and click "share," some bring up a nice little graphical wizard to help me "change sharing permissions" or "stop sharing" (both of which take forever and don't really work) while other folders bring up an old NT style "permissions" dialog box - why the difference? What's going on? AAAAAAA!!! Thanks SO much for even reading this, much less helping me out. Teddy |
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| | Re: Permission Woes Hello, What version of Vista are you using? I had a similar issue while running RC1. I'm not sure how it happened, either. I found that clicking cancel sped things up quite a bit. I haven't noticed this behavior on RTM so far. There is a big difference between sharing permissions and "regular" permissions - and this is a subject that trips up most people. When you access a computer from the network, you can only access the files that you would normally be able to access if you were actually logged on in front of the computer. Sharing a folder does *NOT* override this security mechanism, regardless of what permissions you have assigned to the share itself. Also, if you turn off "password-protected sharing" from the network sharing control panel, whenever you access your Vista machine you are logged in as a "guest" under the covers - so under these circumstances, you AT MOST only have access to the files/folders that allow guests (or everyone) to have access to them. Regular permissions, found via the security tab, are what really count. You can't share the Windows folder and expect anyone who accesses your computer from the network to be able to see and delete files in that folder. Sharing permissions are kind of like a filter that gets applied to the regular permissions. You can think of sharing permissions as "the most permissions that a user can aquire" when accessing that specific share. They allow you to set the MAXIMUM amount of permissions you want the user to be able to use while using that share. Share permissions never, EVER give permission. They only LIMIT permission. For example, if you give a user READ access to the share, but there are files inside the share that grant the user full control (such as files that the user created), the share permissions filter the normal permissions and the user is only granted READ access. Conversely, if the share grants the user FULL CONTROL but a file inside the share only grants the user READ access, the user only gets READ access. In other words, the most limiting combination of permissions between the share and normal permissions are what is applied .-- - JB Windows Vista Support Faq http://www.jimmah.com/vista/ |
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