security settings are greyed out in XP Pro, what gives?

[blueindian]

If I log on as the local administrator of a friend's box, the security settings under folder properties are greyed out. Futher, the admin user has no password and I can't reset it to give one.

bonus question: this computer is on a domain with a share restricted to certain users. unauthorized users on the domain cannot access it, but users connected to the network who are not on the domain can. how do i fix that?

[Jeffbx]

If I log on as the local administrator of a friend's box, the security settings under folder properties are greyed out. Futher, the admin user has no password and I can't reset it to give one.

Colud be that simple file sharing is turned on - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303248/en-us

Could also be that the drive is formatted as FAT32 rather than NTFS. You can't set file level permissions on FAT32.



bonus question: this computer is on a domain with a share restricted to certain users. unauthorized users on the domain cannot access it, but users connected to the network who are not on the domain can. how do i fix that?

Probably the domain users are in a deny group, but the Everyone group sill may have access. Remove the Everyone group from the ACL.