RE: [PCTECH] Accessing "My Documents" File

["Bob Crothers" <bob2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Take the hard drive out of the Windows machine, put it in a Linux
machine and read it that way?  Linux will probably ignore the
windows permissions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wills, Mike
N. (TC)
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:35 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Accessing "My Documents" File
> 
> 
> >From what I have found out she is SOL. I had the same 
> problem and now no
> longer use it. Not even the administrator of the computer can 
> access the
> files. What she should do is instead of doing that. Change 
> the permissions
> herself and include the Administrator group. But this doesn't 
> solve the
> problem.... 
> 
> I will see if I can find anything else. I don't remember what 
> I had to do to
> get it to work.
> 
> 
> Mike Wills
> Lawson Programmer/Administrator
> Taylor Development
> Email: mnwills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Direct Line: (507) 625-3187
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wthompsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:wthompsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:13 AM
> To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PCTECH] Accessing "My Documents" File
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I could use some help with my daughter's PC.  She is at 
> college and I think
> she got a virus on her PC, because she didn't keep her 
> anti-virus software
> up to date but that is another story.  I talked her through 
> what she had to
> do to clean up the virus, but when she rebooted her PC she 
> got Windows XP
> error.  I tried to have her repair XP and then finally ended 
> up having her
> reinstall the software.  It is very tough to do trouble 
> shooting over the
> phone, I have a new found respect for help desk people.  That 
> all worked
> fine and she was able to get everything back up and running.  
> She used the
> same userid and password as she used the first time, but it
created a
> Danielle.001 My Documents for her on the reinstall.  The only 
> problem is
> that she cannot access her old "My Documents" directory.  She 
> is getting an
> unauthorized to access directory error.  She is the 
> administrator on her PC
> and she was also on the first installation.  She set it up 
> not to share any
> of her information, so that friends could log-on and use her 
> PC to check
> their e-mail (using a guest account) but wouldn't be able to 
> snoop on her
> information.
> 
> I have had her try to change permission's, copy to new My 
> Documents, etc.
> and nothing works.  She keeps getting an unauthorized to 
> directory error.
> 
> Any ideas on what to try?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wes Thompson
> iSeries System Programmer/Analyst
> Douglas Machine, Inc.
> Phone: 320-762-6887
> 
> 
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