>Looks like i cant use "getfolder" as it does not have any constant for "read only".
>as you know it supports only following
>Hidden,system,Directory,Archive,compressed.
>
>when i accessed this method with a read only folder it returned 16 ,this is same value for a folder with full rights.
>seems i need to use here either "GetFile" method or try creating dummy text file in each of folders i want to test.

Hmmm,

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/vbscript/QuickRef/folder_attributes.html

Or see http://news2news.com/vfp/?group=27&function=144 and http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms890895.aspx