Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <406C415E.3020101@acm.org> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 08:20:46 -0800 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yufeng Xiong CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Questions on cygwin filemode in WindowsXP References: <001f01c417f8$45619d90$22e94b9f@YufengDell> <406C31FD.1040108@acm.org> <003101c41804$19daec10$22e94b9f@YufengDell> In-Reply-To: <003101c41804$19daec10$22e94b9f@YufengDell> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Yufeng Xiong wrote: > I'm using WindowsXP @Home, it does not seem to have anything available for > changing > file permissions from Windows itself, does anybody know how to do it ? You have to turn off "simple file sharing". It's under the View tab of the Folder Options. Search in WinXP help for "simple file sharing" for more info. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/