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How To Get Control Of Directory in XP?
Somehow, I have managed to create and populate a directory on my Ultra-6 that cannot be deleted or moved by Windows XP. The creation process is something I've done hundreds of times when ripping DV...
StephenB wrote: Set the owner/group appropriately (I use "nobody" and "nogroup") and also the access rights (I use "read/write" for all).
Bingo!.... Thanks.
FWIW, when I brought up "Advanced", Share folder owner: was set to "B". Funny thing is that there is no user "B" defined. Tried changing it to "Admin" and the dialog did an autocomplete - as if it knew about the ID... but threw something like "Illegal ID" when I tried to save it.
Then I went to Security | User & Group Accounts to see what IDs were defined and chose one of them.... then it worked.
Thanks again!
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