Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted August 27, 2007 Posted August 27, 2007 I was told in a previous post that the "read only" setting on a folder in Win 2003 is meaningless. This does not make sense to me, since I doubt it is there for decoration. On the other hand, it seems that you can read, write, and delete files in such a folder at will. Can anyone provide some insight on this enigmatic setting? Thanks for any help.
Guest vidguide@gmail.com Posted September 4, 2007 Posted September 4, 2007 Re: purpose for read only setting on folder On Aug 27, 3:23 pm, runn...@fastmail.fm wrote: > I was told in a previous post that the "read only" setting on a folder > in Win 2003 is meaningless. This does not make sense to me, since I > doubt it is there for decoration. On the other hand, it seems that > you can read, write, and delete files in such a folder at will. Can > anyone provide some insight on this enigmatic setting? Thanks for any > help. ownership overrides most permissions. So if you take a user, and give him read-only access to his own folder, it wont work. Same applies to admins, admins override folder permissions, so if you're testing as an admin, you won't see the effect. Make a folder owned by user A read only, and then try to make User B write to it. You cannot.
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