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Re: Incorrect error message for file operation in Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Incorrect error message for file operation in Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:11:18 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:45:25 +0400
> From: Ivanov Dmitry <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
>
> > Can you describe in detail what do
> > you mean by 'My user doesn't have the right to write to "e:/video"'?
> > What kind of filesystem is on drive E:, and why cannot your user write
> > there?
>
> The filesystem is NTFS. OS: Windows XP SP3. I am working as an ordinary user,
> who can only read from E:\video, and can not write there.
Thanks, but that's not enough info.
Windows XP rarely disallows writing to disk files and directories.
There are 2 possible ways of doing that:
. Turn on the read-only attribute
. Set NT security descriptor that denies write access
Since E:\video is a directory, I'm guessing yours is the latter case.
If so, could you perhaps show the NT security DACL descriptor of that
directory? There are a couple of utilities floating around, like
subinacl, that can display the DACL in several formats; either SDDL or
human-readable description will be fine.
The reason I'm asking these questions is that I need to simulate the
problem on my machine and see what is going on there, to be able to
diagnose it. I already tried a few directories that are private to
other users, and never got the error. So some details are missing for
reproducing your error.
Thanks.