jmaccraw,
Well, I am old. And, I did "grow up" through WinNT! LOL! My Bad. Last
time I saw/used 'power user' was in Win2K. Have not looked for it in XP.
I do still run "ME" as an administrator on my 2K server, because most
status and maintenance of the services seem to require it; like the RAS
and RAC of my a/v proggy.
I remain thick about what's under the hood of Windows access logic.
Yes, I have never used any group assignment except <workgroup>.
I'll check out your link share later this afternoon.
Best,
Duncan
On 02/22/2010 22:16, maccrawj wrote:
"usernames" mean nothing, it's the SID's they translate to that count.
Funny sidenote: I read that renaming the administrator account is less
than effective since the SID does not change anyway.
Just shooting from the hip but I bet if you stick to BUILT-IN user
groups the problems go away as the SID would not change from system to
system.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330
Oh, and LOL on the NT throwback "power user". Did not know anyone still
used that hack of a solution.
On 2/22/2010 2:51 PM, DSinc wrote:
I still do not understand ACLs.
I still do not completely understand Domains.
All things "Group Policy" cause my eyes to glaze over!
I only know (ATM) that MS lets me install/build an OS and gives me a
"default" user. He/She/It is "administrator."
And, I get to give Him/Her/It a password even (or not!)
Beyond the above, I can add other entities and give these entities
passwords also. I can even promote these entities greater or lesser
abilities within the OS my "administrator" completed an install of.
I sure hope I am close in my simple view(?)
I only have 2 [IDs, UserNames, Accounts, UNames, Logins, Desktops, etc.]
on all of my machines:
administrator
"ME" (my name) {a power user}
This thread I will watch.............. :)
Best,
Duncan
On 02/22/2010 16:45, Scott Sipe wrote:
I guess the systems are not part of a Windows Domain? If they are
NTFS and using ACLs then the ACLs don't transfer properly between
multiple single user computers I guess? (so that user Joe on one
computer is not recognized as user Joe on a different computeR)
MAybe the easiest thing to do is just change the permissions for the
entire disk so that Everyone (the Everyone user entity) has full
permissions?
Don't know if this is at all helpful, never having shared a USB disk
between multiple Win7 computers.
Scott
On Feb 20, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I now have all my work systems using Windows 7. Yet, when I move
my USB HD between them, I keep getting ownership issues when I open
my files. This pisses me off because I forget that the file opened
read-only (actually, I usually don't notice it) and when I go to
save it, I have to change the filename. I can fix it by using
properties on a given file so I can write over it next time, but
dammit...I need this to go away forever.
How does one fix this once and for all? And am I the only one
dealing with this? Why hasn't MS fixed this in an update?
