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Originally posted by onebadfish
check out my posts in "file browsing other computers", the sysop helped me work through some basics and now i got the hookup.
it's in the pda/axim newbies section.
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Onebadfish,
Thanks for pointing me to your topic. Although the post didn't exactly get me working, it did make me think a little.
Since I am using XP Pro with a NTFS filesystem, there are two levels of security to pass in order to see a share.
1. Share permissions
2. NTFS permissions
The thing to remember here is NTFS security. The Axim doesn't understand this. I proved this to myself by logging in (for future reference, XP wants you to log in as):
machinename\username (machinename=your XP box's name)
your XP password
your workgroup/domain.
If any of these is missing, you will not log in.
Now the interesting part is this login means nothing to XP except to check if you really exist on the machine. What you must do to allow browsing/use of shares under NTFS is to allow the user EVERYONE read access to whatever share you are trying to get to (share level security). Even if your login is in share level security with full access, you cannot enter a share unless
everyone has read access. Again it appears that once you login, the Axim/or XP totally ignors your username. Since all the PocketPC os is validating is share level security on NTFS, whatever permissions you have set for yourself under NTFS security is moot.
So, when I added read permission to everyone at the share level, I was able to navigate to that share. However none of the files would list. This is where I found that PPC doesn't pass the username to NTFS security. Once I added read permission to everyone at the NTFS level, all was fine.
This wouldn't work too well in a corporate environment as you probably wouldn't want everyone to have read access to shares. Plus you need to add write permission to everyone also if you plan on saving files across your network.
If anyone can prove me wrong, PLEASE do so as I would love to do this another way.
Todd
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