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I have a problem with a third party program that is running on a small network and uses DOS.

My setup:
3 Computers
1 Windows 2000 Pro.
1 Windows XP Pro.
1 Windows 98SE
We are also running on a Domain, so each person has his/her account to access the network.

The program's data is all in the Windows XP Pro computer, and i have been having problems accessing the data folders from the other 2 computers. I contacted the program vendor, and he specified to me that the data folders should NOT have "Read-Only" enabled, but on Windows XP you cannot remove the "Read-Only" on the parent folder, only on child objects, that i know of.

The only way i have found out that the users could access the data folder is to add each user as a Local Administrator on the Windows XP computer (where the data resides) and for security issues i cannot leave the users with administrative access on any computer. I am looking for any viable solution for this.

I tried the following:
First i tried sharing the drive with Full Control in Sharing/Security with a test account, it didnt work.

Next i tried sharing only the data folders with Full Control in Sharing/Security with a test account, it didnt work either.
*Tried same thing adding the test account locally as "Power User" , it didnt work.

Then i left the data folders shared with Read/Write only in Sharing/Security, and added the test account as Local Administrator, this worked.

I also tried various forms of Local access (User, Power User, etc.) only one that worked is Local Admin.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.