[Virtualacorn-list] Windows 8.1 and Access Rights

[Mik Towse]

In article <mpro.nkakrd01gtih10280 at wingsandbeaks.org.uk.invalid> Jeremy
Nicoll - ml virtualacorn  wrote:
> Mik Towse <mik.towse at xemik.com> wrote:
> >User on BOTH Windows computers is "RISC OS".
> I think this is because they're two separate users, which just happen to
> have the same name.  
> 
> W8 knows that the disk was at one point owned by one of them, and knows
> that the other same-named (but different internally) user is someone else. 
> It's perfectly sensible from a security who-owns-what point of view;
> imagine if you didn't want the data on the disk to be accessed by someone
> else, just by them pretending to have your user name.
Yeah, I egt that, but the owner HP/RISC OS wasn't showing in the Acer/RISC OS
view. IN fact, when it came back to the HP only an SID was shown as the
owner.

[snip]
> Are you sure you properly dismounted the drive from each system before
> trying something on the other system?  (I can see it would be easy to
> forget while getting exasperated).
Hm, perhaps. I know when I removed it from the HP, that was power down,
because it wouldn't allow me to dismount it! Taking it off the Acer, I might
not have. :(
 
> > So the Question is... ...what do I have to do to the folders on E: to
> > allow me to use them on either computer without all this Windows nonsense
> > stopping me?
> I don't know, but I can't imagine it's a problem unique to VRPC.  Maybe
> googling knowing that the problem hinges on multiple users needing equal
> access to the disk, rather than assuming it's the same user, would help?
> 
> Maybe you need to grant access to all users rather than specified ones -
> though that may translate on machine X to "all users on machine X" which
> will not help.
This is what i tried when I puit it on the Acer, but the HP/RISC OS had gone
when it came back.

But here's the really kicker, ALL the other folders (5+ top-level & many
sub-folders) on the drive are accessible without any intervention from me.
It's only the VRPC drive foders that it won't allow me to access.

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