win 2k sharing question

This is a silly question, so anyone who answers it can feel free to make fun of me afterwards. Is there anyway on win2k to share a folder over a network and enable people to take items from the folder and put them on their HD for their own personal use without letting them have write access to the folder? Thanks early for your help

 

At first I wasn't sure if you were serious about the question but I'll assume when you say its a silly question I'll just agree with you...;-)

simply share the folder and click on security tab and put a check mark in Allow column of Read and Execute and List Folder contents for the users or group if you created one. Thats a very basic read permission. You can get much more detailed by clicking on the advanced button.

Jim

 

that's what I thought

exactly, that's what I thought, I gave read permissions to the group "everyone ", and I can have read access to the folder but i cannot pull anything out of the folder and put it onto the hard drive of another computer. Did i give permissions to the wrong group or what? I cannot figure out what i am not doing right? Do i have to create a new user group? I want everyone on the network to be able to access my shared files

 

That should work.... You will be able to copy and paste but won't be able to cut and paste becuase of read permission. Also since your giving everyone read then you will need to give your user id full control to the folder becuaes obviously you'd be part of everyone otherwise.

Double check permission on the folder and also your permissions on pc your trying to put on.

 

win 2k sharing

ok, I already had my log-in on my computer set as an admin and the permissions have read access and not "change" or "full" access and I still can't copy files from my computer to a win 98 machine over the network. And everyone has read access, what the hell am I doing wrong? I do not understand what I am doing incorrectly. Any ideas?