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Hay, I am sharing a folder in Windows XP Home, and so far its all good, everyone on my wireless can access it and copy files and paste files.
But I want to restrict everyone but me from deleting files.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

No, because your a fool and you're using Windows. See the error of your ways and convert to Mac.

Hay, I am sharing a folder in Windows XP Home, and so far its all good, everyone on my wireless can access it and copy files and paste files.
But I want to restrict everyone but me from deleting files.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

I'd assume you'd need to be an administrator to be able to do that.

I'm not sure how filesharing works on XP, as I've never done it.

Im an Administrator on XP and I've gotten the sharing to work, just can't set up permissions :(

No, because your a fool and you're using Windows. See the error of your ways and convert to Mac.
Yeah cause that is a whole lot easier sharing files with windows machines :rolleyes: how bout they just run samba on windows :p

You will want (and I am doing this from memory because my machine here is on a domain and filesharing menu is disabled) to right click on the flile go to sharing
then there should be a checkbox with the "share this file on the network"

in the same location there should be a "alow users to change or modify" UNCHECK that


assuming windows xp

now my wording may be a bit off but should be close

it si possible i dont know the details im not on xp anymore, i ordered 30 linux discs and well im having fun!!! you need to use special admin access and resrict the other users to non admin it is the only way, or you could encrypt the folder so anyone can put files in and copy them out but not delete without password but that requires additional software not in xp.

No, because your a fool and you're using Windows. See the error of your ways and convert to Mac.

Macs are going Intel-inside! Macs are PCs now ... laughs evilly.

Read this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304040

Macs are going Intel-inside! Macs are PCs now ... laughs evilly.
That they are ... and they are scrabling to hold their stranglehold on their hardware/software combo

(with the potential after the switch of runing windows on a mac or os on a PC

Macs are going Intel-inside! Macs are PCs now ... laughs evilly.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! wait does this mean they'll have more games!? :D
Then mac will be teh awsomeness!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! wait does this mean they'll have more games!? :D
Then mac will be teh awsomeness!
Nope ... cause they will still be running mac os

The deterant was the OS not the hardware(to an extent ... maybe the new processor will make things simpler to port over ... but I heard they are still using RISC or want to)

I tried unticking "Allow users to modify my data" but that makes it so they can't even created a file...
I want them to be able to created, just not delete.

I tried unticking "Allow users to modify my data" but that makes it so they can't even created a file...
I want them to be able to created, just not delete.
Then you have to get fancy and do folder permissions on the shared folder that gets a bit more tricky (easy in unix with the chmod util) you have to set the permissions ... it is different between xp home and pro so I have to get infront of a home machine before I could tell ya for sure

Hay, I am sharing a folder in Windows XP Home, and so far its all good, everyone on my wireless can access it and copy files and paste files.
But I want to restrict everyone but me from deleting files.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

You can't do it with XP Home, it lacks more robust permissions access of XP Pro (and Win2k) to controll more specific actions.

You can't do it with XP Home, it lacks more robust permissions access of XP Pro (and Win2k) to controll more specific actions.
Built in yes … though if I remember right windows samba has some of those features available :p

Built in yes … though if I remember right windows samba has some of those features available :p

Whats Samba??
How can I get it?