Permissions on a home directory

[Guest]

Hi

We are currently converting our NT4 network to Active Directory running 2003 Servers. We are currently running in mixed mode

The old PDC which was upgraded sets the path for users home directories. This was working fine until the server on which the users home directories live was rebuilt to 2003 Server. Now the users have Read access only on their files. Detailed below are the permissions set on the users folder

When I right click the folder and select properties it shows the Read Only box as grey and ticked, I can Untick it and then I am prompted "Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" I say yes and it does some work. It then closes the dialog and when I reopen I find as before the Read only box is once again ticked

If I go to the the security tab, there are 2 users reflected, Domain\ administrator and Domain\username. Both have full control of the folder.
If I click the advanced tab and then owner tab, the Domain\username is reflected as the owner. If I go to Effective Permissions the user is reflected as having all the permissions ticked. However when the user goes into their "U:\" (home) drive they can only read the documents in there and not copy, delete etc. for example if you try copy a doc the error message which comes up is "Cannot copy the XX.doc, Access is denied, the source file may be in use

Can anyone please point to where I have gone wrong in setting up the users directories

Thnaks

jonathan

 

[Marcus Fredriksson]

Have you checked the permissions on the share level?

///Marcus

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Hi,

We are currently converting our NT4 network to Active Directory running

2003 Servers. We are currently running in mixed mode.

The old PDC which was upgraded sets the path for users home directories.

This was working fine until the server on which the users home directories
live was rebuilt to 2003 Server. Now the users have Read access only on
their files. Detailed below are the permissions set on the users folder:

When I right click the folder and select properties it shows the Read Only

box as grey and ticked, I can Untick it and then I am prompted "Apply
changes to this folder, subfolders and files" I say yes and it does some
work. It then closes the dialog and when I reopen I find as before the Read
only box is once again ticked.

If I go to the the security tab, there are 2 users reflected, Domain\

administrator and Domain\username. Both have full control of the folder.

If I click the advanced tab and then owner tab, the Domain\username is

reflected as the owner. If I go to Effective Permissions the user is
reflected as having all the permissions ticked. However when the user goes
into their "U:\" (home) drive they can only read the documents in there and
not copy, delete etc. for example if you try copy a doc the error message
which comes up is "Cannot copy the XX.doc, Access is denied, the source file
may be in use"

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,

We are currently converting our NT4 network to Active Directory
running 2003 Servers. We are currently running in mixed mode.

The old PDC which was upgraded sets the path for users home
directories. This was working fine until the server on which the
users home directories live was rebuilt to 2003 Server. Now the users
have Read access only on their files. Detailed below are the
permissions set on the users folder:

When I right click the folder and select properties it shows the Read
Only box as grey and ticked, I can Untick it and then I am prompted
"Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files" I say yes and it
does some work. It then closes the dialog and when I reopen I find as
before the Read only box is once again ticked.

The read only box there is irrelevant....not related to your problem.

If I go to the the security tab, there are 2 users reflected, Domain\
administrator and Domain\username. Both have full control of the
folder.

Don't give users full control - modify is enough. You don't want them to be
able to change security - just read/write/execute/delete.

If I click the advanced tab and then owner tab, the
Domain\username is reflected as the owner. If I go to Effective
Permissions the user is reflected as having all the permissions
ticked. However when the user goes into their "U:\" (home) drive they
can only read the documents in there and not copy, delete etc. for
example if you try copy a doc the error message which comes up is
"Cannot copy the XX.doc, Access is denied, the source file may be in
use"

Share permissions in W2k3 are not set to allow "everyone=full control" as in
previous versions. Grant everyone full control at the SHARE level. Control
the rest via NTFS security.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Guys, that was the issue, the share was read only. Cheers.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Glad it's resolved!