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File Permission Issue Help! victor.marbach 09-09-2005
Posted by victor.marbach on September 9, 2005, 8:05 am
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Hi all,
I have a very big issue with windows 2003.
I have dozens of user document folders and I can't manage to set up the
correct permissions for them. For example, for user X, i want to allow
access only for admin and user X, then when i apply this settings i
have at least half of the files with an access denied error message.
So the only way to set correct persmission is to become the owner of
all files and user folder, BUT if i try to set administrator as owner
of the user directory and all subfolders, i still have this damn
"access denied, can't change permission".
HOWEVER, if i do exactly the same thing, not for an entire folder but
for one file, it works !
As i have thousands files to process, i'm not going to change owner
access for each of all those files !
Any idea ??



Posted by learner on September 9, 2005, 5:38 pm
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when setting admin as owner be sure to reset lower level.
Sometimes, one would have to go level by level.

Of course there is another way, assuming all file are owned by user x,
runas userX and permit all to admin first. that may seem too late but still
worth a try before you do anything else
One reason I dislike
lower level not inheriting from ancestor
deny permission
is this very problem you run into.

> Hi all,
> I have a very big issue with windows 2003.
> I have dozens of user document folders and I can't manage to set up the
> correct permissions for them. For example, for user X, i want to allow
> access only for admin and user X, then when i apply this settings i
> have at least half of the files with an access denied error message.
> So the only way to set correct persmission is to become the owner of
> all files and user folder, BUT if i try to set administrator as owner
> of the user directory and all subfolders, i still have this damn
> "access denied, can't change permission".
> HOWEVER, if i do exactly the same thing, not for an entire folder but
> for one file, it works !
> As i have thousands files to process, i'm not going to change owner
> access for each of all those files !
> Any idea ??
>




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