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re: Can't change the read only attributes on a folder in Windows 2003.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 3:21 am
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Posted by Mark (39 messages posted)


did ya see if her account was in the right group or has the sufficent privligs to open those files (going form server 2000 to 2003 is a hard transition, not as easy as M$ trys to play it) sorry if my reply seems kinda like a newbie responce i just got my Net+ and server 2003 certifications


On Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:07 am, Starriol wrote:
>OK, here's the deal: New Windows 2003 server. I copied all the files from the old
>Windows 2000 server to the new server, shared them again, etc.
>
>But I can't seem to be able to change the permissions on these files! I do this:
>I log to the server with administrator user, I enter permissions and then advanced,
>then owner (or the equivalent in the english version of 2003) and then I set all
>the folders & subfolders to belong to the administrator user.
>
>Then, in the folder propierties, I deselect "read only" attribute (which is gray,
>indicating some of the files are read only) then I chose to apply to all subfolders.
>
>I go back to check how it went and nothing, it's all the same. Read only in gray
>again.
>
>I need to change this because one of the girls who works with these files opens them
>as read only because of this and that's very annoying to her... the weird thing is
>that only she has this problem, all the other people working on the same files open
>them without problems. And the operative system is the same, as is the Microsoft
>Office version (they are .doc files).
>Thanks!


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Can't change the read only attributes on a folder in Windows 2003. (Starriol: Friday, September 8, 2006 at 6:07 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can't change the read only attributes on a folder in Windows 2003. (Starriol: Fri, Sep 8, 2006, 6:07 am)
*re: Can't change the read only attributes on a folder in Windows 2003. (Mark: Wed, Sep 20, 2006, 3:21 am)
*re: Can't change the read only attributes on a folder in Windows 2003. (sookying: Thu, Jul 19, 2007, 5:02 pm)
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