Permission denied for inclusion of file in windows

Question

The following code:

 include path/to/file

produces this error output:

... path/to/file: Permission denied

I ran:

cacls C: /t /g Everyone:R

so that the new permissions read:

                   <Account Domain not found>F 
                   Everyone:R 

It still says permission denied, but then I looked up my user name and it turns out I'm running as Administrator.

I ran:

cacls C: /t /g Administrator:F

but that had no effect on the cacls output

To my understanding, as administrator, the permissions shouldn't matter at all... What am I missing?

Answer 1

I couldn't really explain my situation any better, so I spoke to the system admin. He explained it thusly:

The windows user {w1} was associated with a user {u1} and I was trying to make actions that only user {u2} had the credentials to do.

*{u1}*     [Unix]      {u2}       

   |      --Samba--              

 {u1}      [Win1]           

          --VNC--                       

       [My Computer]                    

I couldn't do this without having a windows user associated with {u2}. So a quick solution would be to make my own windows user {w2}.

{u1}       [Unix]      {u2}       

   |      --Samba--      |        

 {w1}      [Win1]      {w2}   

          --VNC--                       

       [My Computer] 

But, Windows Virtual Machine, like all versions of windows (except Terminal Server) - can only support one user at a time. So to access {w2} I would have to log out user {w1} meaning the two users could not work simultaneously.

In the end, the solution was to create a cloned virtual machine [Win2] associated with user {u2} so that both users could work simultaneously.

  {u1}      [Unix]      {u2}

           --Samba--    

    [Win1]          [Win2]

            --VNC--

         [My Computer]