tonawandares wrote: ↑March 20th, 2019, 6:12 pm
Trench wrote: ↑March 20th, 2019, 4:49 pm
What does the "General" tab say the location of the BF1942.EXE program is?
C:\Users\Home_01\Desktop
So is this what he was accessing? The game is installed on E:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES
Okay, that helps to confirm too, but I screwed up. I incorrectly recalled "Target:" was on the "General" tab, but it's on the "Shortcut" tab. It's the path that is in "Target:" that I was looking to confirm. Meaning on
your machine, HOME_01, the shortcut on the desktop for launching BF1942.EXE on which the "Compatibility" tab is grayed out, what path to BF1942.EXE is in the "Target:" field at this point?
(
"C:\Users\Home_01\Desktop" is just the location of the shortcut file itself; i.e. it's an icon on your desktop.)
tonawandares wrote: ↑March 20th, 2019, 6:12 pm
So the file path on the general tab should be C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 1942\
No, if you have the game installed on a physical E: drive, then the
"E:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES" directory is where the shortcut should be pointing to. I just didn't acknowledge the possibility that you might have overridden the path during installation, or would have put your Program Files directory on an alternate drive.
And that's what I'm trying to confirm in the previous paragraph; what path is showing for "Target:"? Since ostensibly that's the path Windows 7 is now saying "I consider that to be a network path, so I can't let you change the Compatibility tab."
I'm wondering whether the shortcut is still showing your local
"E:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES" directory (or your local
"C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES" directory, if that had been where you installed it) as the "Target:" path. Which would mean Windows is now saying "that's a network path", even though we humans would say that's a local drive & local directory.
Or, does your "Target:" now show an actual UNC path for accessing the game, or some mapped drive other than E:, or "anything" other than the
"E:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES" directory you are expecting it should be using for launching BF1942.EXE.
tonawandares wrote: ↑March 20th, 2019, 6:35 pm
So I do have a quick question... can I remove the permissions from home_02 to access this game? I don't mind having access to Home-01 from Home-02 but If I restrict permissions wouldn't that cause an inherited permissions issue?
I with there was a simple answer to that. If he had used the "normal sharing" (which Microsoft calls "Advanced sharing" now) I could say definitively what it did and what we need to undo. But the "Homegroup" mechanism, especially back in Windows 7, did a lot of really weird things. That Microsoft doesn't try very hard to "explain", under the guise of trying to make home networking "easy for users who don't know how to setup sharing."
If the machines are participating in a Homegroup (either before, and/or maybe now, as part of what he did), then I believe the users on those machines have permission to define what should be shared. It's weird; as I recall, it creates some Homegroup-specific user account and multiplexes everyones access through that. Not what I call "normal Windows sharing" at all, but it's what they're doing to try and make networking "easy" on desktop systems.
Open up the "Network & Internet Settings" control panel, and in that settings page use the "Network and Sharing Center" link to bring up the older network control panel. See whether that page describes your machine as being member of a "Homegroup". Versus "ready to join" Homegroup, which means you're NOT part of one already. If it turns out you're part of a Homegroup, I'll just need to do some more research on what we need to look for, since that's not a mode I can definitely say "what it did" in response to him trying to get access.