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by swollenburg 1 view

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I have a 500gb Lacie external hard drive attached to the server. I can get to the Lacie from any computer through the network. The problem I am having is when I open a file on the Lacie and save it to my desktop, then make some changes and go to save it back to the Lacie, it will not let me saying "this is a read only file" This happens from all the computers on my network, however, if I go to the server computer and save this file to the desktop and then go back and save it back to the Lacie it works just fine. I cannot seem to save anything to the Lacie over the network. I have tried to change permissions on the Lacie, however it still does not seem to let me save to it from any computer other than the server. I cannot save anything to the Lacie as it keeps telling e it is a read only fi;e and will not let me save to it. This is not conveinant and I need to get it changed - any ideas???

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by techienate

Make sure the sharing permissions allow changes to the files, as well as the ntfs permissions.

The "Sharing" tab in the properties of your shared folder or drive allows you to change the sharing permissions. Click on the permissions button and make sure "Full Control" is checked for your group or user name.

Go to the security tab to configure ntfs security. Give the proper permissions to the group or user name you want to be allowed to modify the contents of the shared drive. For example, to give everyone full control of the contents of the drive, select the group "Everyone" in the top pane, then check the box to allow "Full Control" in the bottom pane of the Security tab. If the group "Everyone" does not exist in the list, click "add," type in "everyone" , hit check names to make sure you spelled it correctly, then click ok. Then give the group "Everyone" full control of the shared drive. (By the way, the network sharing permissions mentioned in the previous paragraph may work the same way as the ntfs permissions just described, depending upon your setup.)

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