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"you need permission to perform this action" copying a file
It's almost embarressing to ask this but I need help copying a file
from a network share to my Vista computer. For some reason I am completely blocked when attempting this. Here's the situation: * 3 gb ISO on a networked-pc (running XP) file share with read permissions. i can see the file in Windows Explorer after providing network login credentials. * when attempting to copy to any folder on my Vista Home computer (tried desktop, c: root, and 'downloads') I am denied with a error: "you need permission to perform this action" * I've read various other posts on the matter which all point to ownership issues. I have taken ownership over the local folder and it makes no difference * Initially I had ACL turned off but have since reactivated it to see if that helped. It did not. * I log in with a local user to Vista but use the same username (with different password) when connecting to the network. What the heck do I need to do to copy a file off the network?? Any help is mucho appreciated. |
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"you need permission to perform this action" copying a file
The problem was that the network permissions were set to 'list' but
not 'read'. Apparently, I was barking up the wrong tree with the permissions on the Vista side. The new error dialog through me off. |
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"you need permission to perform this action" copying a file
Hi Karlid,
This might be the answer I'm looking for. I'm logged into Vista as the administrator (only the one account was setup during install). Anyway, for the first time since installing Vista, I decided to connect my 7-in-1 card reader and empty my flash card from my digital camera as there were some photos I wanted to send. Vista recognised it as a "USB 2.0 Card Reader" but doesn't have any drivers loaded for it so I can't access the photos. Tried asking it to update the driver, giving it permission to go on-line. No luck. So I then stuck the card reader into my Ubuntu box and copied the photos to a directory called "Photos" and then to a sub-directory called "Max" (for the photos from my camera) and a sub-directory called "Lesley" (for the photos from my wife's camera). I then went back to my Windows machine and found this directory (Photos) in my mapped network drives and tried to copy it (not move it) to the Vista desktop. This bought up a dialogue box saying "You need permission to perform this action", along with the name of the file. The only options are "Try again" (which fails), "Skip" (which defeats my purpose) or "Cancel" (the only thing left). I then thought it might be something to do with Vista protecting the desktop so I tried copying it to a directory within my Documents but had the same lack of success. I then thought I might be still be able to email the photo, so I tried to attach a photo by navigating to the network drive and selecting my photo but that didn't work either. Why won't Vista let me copy files from a network drive? Oh, and does anyone know what I can do regarding a driver for my generic 7-in-1 card reader that it recognises as such but can't find it's own driver for? Thanks in advance. Additional info I just went to the network drive and tried to copy just a photo by itself. No luck. Then double-clicked on it (as it was listing the files by name) to view the photo and Windows Photo Gallery opened with a message saying "Photo Gallery can't open this picture because you don't have permission to access the file location." - And yet Vista allows me to navigate in Explorer to see the files within that directory, so it does let me access that file location. Confused. " wrote: The problem was that the network permissions were set to 'list' but not 'read'. Apparently, I was barking up the wrong tree with the permissions on the Vista side. The new error dialog through me off. |