Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:12:09 -0600 (10:12 AM EST here) Greg Strong wrote: > Hello Dan,
> Monday, November 29, 2004, 8:47:00 AM, Dan Grunberg wrote: >> The first Information listed "How to set, view, change or remove >> file and folder permissions in Windows XP" >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en;308418 has a >> Reference 307874 "How to disable simplified sharing and set >> permissions on a shared folder in Windows XP" >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874 includes a statement saying >> that simple file sharing is the default setting of Windows XP. >> Document 307874 also contains this: "Note You cannot turn off >> simple file sharing in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition." Does >> anyone know a way to get around that, without upgrading XP HOme to >> XP Pro? > How Do I Get the Security tab in Folder Properties? > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_security_tab.htm Getting the Security tab is _not_ the solution for XP Home users. The problem is that when you can see the Security tab and give a non-administrative user the privileges necessary to change a program's files (as the user must do to add words to a TheBat! dictionary and/or to train BayesIt to recognize SPAM), the user still cannot change the files. I think this is because XP Home is stuck in the simplified file sharing mode. Simplified file sharing is the default mode in both XP Home and XP Pro, but simplified file sharing can only be turned off in XP Pro. Nevertheless (as I have posted in another message on this group) at least one software publisher has written a utility to work around the problem. (Who knows, _perhaps_ the publisher change his software's registry entries without the use of an XP Pro's security-tab's "wizard." Using: The Bat! v2.12.00, BayesIt! 0.5.9, MyMacros 1.11, gMacrosPlugin 0.80 Windows XP v5.1 - Build 2600 - Service Pack 2 -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
