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Permissions
I've been a Windows user since Windows 2.0 and have been using Win7 for about three weeks, so I will probably be posting a ton trying to get help as I slowly re-learn an OS that I have used for decades. Win7 is very, very different...
I am having major issues with drive mapping and permissions.
Re: drive mapping. I have the same user account with the same password on three XP and one Win7 system; this user is a member of each computer's administrators group. All computers are part of the same workgroup. XP can map drives to XP easily. Win7 cannot map drives to XP, and XP cannot map drives to Win7. I am used to the "net use z: \\machine\c$ /user:administrator" syntax and this has worked for me for many years. I am struggling to get this to work with Win7. I have read a dozen articles online but nothing I have seen works. Suggestions?
Re: permissions. This is *my* system. I wrongly assumed Win7 would trust me enough to give me complete control over *my* computer. Sadly, it does not. I popped in an old SATA disk drive with some data on it, and couldn't even access it. Had to change ownership, change permissions... What a pain in the rear that was. Really? How is this forward thinking? Secondarily, I can't copy files into certain directories (c:\, c:\program files, c:\windows etc) because they are "protected." Again, I took ownership recursively of my entire system disk (amazing that this was even necessary....) and changed permissions to give me 'full control' over everything, recursively. Still having trouble with Win7 trusting me enough to let me put files where I want to put them. Is there a solution? Is this *my* computer or not? Last time I checked, my house didn't have a sysadmin with whom I had to get permission to change stuff on my PCs....
Thanks.