chmod on localhost

[Notquiteanewbie]

i'm sure this is probably easy but how do i change file permissions on the localhost

i'm on win xp pro sp2

 

[Twister]

Right Click -> Properties -> Security tab...

 

[Notquiteanewbie]

i don't have a security tab

i can right click and go to sharing and security but there really isn't much there besides read only and hidden

should i uncheck read only?

 

[Xipher]

What file system? With FAT32 you can pretty much just do read-only, and maybe a couple other attributes, but NTFS you can specify who can do what.

 

[Notquiteanewbie]

i'm using ntfs

 

[tim_m]

to be clear, there is no 'chmod' for windows, that's a *nix thing. in win xp, you need to open up an explorer window, my computer is just fine, then tools->folder options->view->uncheck use simple file sharing, last option. then when you right click on a folder/drive->properties, the security tab should be available.

 

[Notquiteanewbie]

good stuff thanks man

 

[HorsePunchKid]

It's not worth it if all you want is chmod, but you might be interested in Cygwin. It's got all of the critical *nix cmdline utilities I rely on, and they generally work almost exactly like they do in a *nix environment. I don't use chmod all that much under Cygwin, but it does do what I want it to do when I need it.