From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 BuildID: 2002020406 I share my Downloads directory over a home LAN so that other family members can access the files I download (for instance, the latest build of Mozilla for them to try) To do this, my 'downloads' directory is shared using Windows XP's 'simple file sharing' mode. However, downloaded files are only accessible for the user who created them (me) by default and nobody else - in Unix terms, similar to a umask of 066. The easiest workaround to them readable over the network is to move them elsewhere and then back into the Downloads directory. This is under the NTFS file system, and as an educated guess would also affect Windows 2000 and NT. However I haven't tested it with these platforms (it's possibly a problem with Simple File Sharing, which makes a few assumptions by itself) The behaviour I've come to expect after using Internet Explorer, is for downloaded files to inherit their access permissions from the directory they're saved in (in my case, read/write to all). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the NTFS filesystem on a Windows XP machine 2. Create a 'folder' and share it on a LAN with full permissions 3. Download a file to this folder 4. Try to access the downloaded file from another Windows PC on the network Actual Results: A dialog box will pop up "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item" Expected Results: Ideally it should be an option, but I'd have expected Mozilla to create the permissions based on the folder it's downloading the file to, rather than the default permissions of "accessible only to the person who downloaded the file" "Simple File Sharing" is enabled (by default) and can behave in unexpected ways itself sometimes. It's worth considering whether it's a bug in that system, rather than Mozilla. But even if it is, an option to work around it would be highly useful.

Looks like the windows version of what I filed. Thanks. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124307 ***

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