The reason Vista sucks is that it doesn’t need to be any good, because people will get it anyway. - Ben A’Lee
And i agree, Vista is so sucky that it did not last 10 days on my desktop, yes it was shiney, but it told me i didnt know how to use my computer, and locked me from doing things i wanted to do (all those files on a NTFS drive belong to Skippy, (XP install Skippy) not you Skippy, you need to log in as an Administrator, Mr Skippy of the Administrator group to change ownership to Skippy, from Skippy. that is not the only time that the rediculus security muck things up thing bugged me.
When using the computer, and you want to change your networking settings, do you want to wait for the screen to go gray, and then have to click a box which should have been marked "get out of my face, i know what i am doing!"
As for "easer and simpler file sharing" well the danm thing didn’t remember that the wire that connects it to the network is a trusted network (its a Desktop….) and my network has only trusted devices on it. so turing of the share //hlin/skippy$ every boot annoys the hell out of me.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
I suspect the problem with permissions is because the name of the user is, for all intents and purposes, meaningless; most likely, the permissions are based on a numerical user ID, and for whatever reason, this changed. If that doesn’t make sense, consider what would happen if the machine had two users, both with the same name—if security was based on the name, these users would be able to read each others’ files.
November 14th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I know how UID’s work,
my my documents folder is in z:\skippy
the folder windows xp controls is in c:\documents and settings\skippy
and the vista one is a diffrent path,
I would have thought that i can get away with being trusted on my own computer on a hard drive that ACL’s should not apply too
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:44 pm
In other words the vista is bleak?