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How can I give a service administrator privileges in Vista

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Whenever I try to write from Vista to a folder on the XP partition I

get an access-denied error. Now I wouldn't have been surprised

atproblems writing from XP to folders on the Vista system partition

(although I haven't tried that yet and I have no problem accessing

Vista folders (not junction points) by network shares from other

machines running XP).

 

I've discovered that for an application to write from Vista to any of

the folders on the XP partition it must be logged on as Administrator

in Vista. If I start any application explicitly as administrator in

Vista, it can then write to folders there. My problem is I want to

give MirrorFolder service administrator privilege so it can mirror to

folders on the XP partition So how can I give MirrorFolder blanket

Administrator privilege in Vista???

 

I tried resetting MirrorFolder service log on as Administrator but no

luck.

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    Okay--I've got it. I set the MirrorFolder application to always run

    at elevated UAC and it now has no problem writing to folders on the XP

    partition!

     

    See:

     

    http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/0d75f774-8514-4c9e-ac08-4c21f5c6c2d91033.mspx?mfr=true

     

    On Jul 3, 7:34 pm, "no_spam_paque...@uwo.ca" wrote:

    > Whenever I try to write from Vista to a folder on the XP partition I

    > get an access-denied error. Now I wouldn't have been surprised

    > atproblems writing from XP to folders on the Vista system partition

    > (although I haven't tried that yet and I have no problem accessing

    > Vista folders (not junction points) by network shares from other

    > machines running XP).

    >

    > I've discovered that for an application to write from Vista to any of

    > the folders on the XP partition it must be logged on as Administrator

    > in Vista. If I start any application explicitly as administrator in

    > Vista, it can then write to folders there. My problem is I want to

    > give MirrorFolder service administrator privilege so it can mirror to

    > folders on the XP partition So how can I give MirrorFolder blanket

    > Administrator privilege in Vista???

    >

    > I tried resetting MirrorFolder service log on as Administrator but no

    > luck.

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