Sharing folders

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Mark W

I have a Win2000 server, sharing several folders. One
contains about 13000 word documents. This shared folder
is showing read-only attributes, but the files within the
folder, and sub-folders are definately not. If i look at
the attributes of the folders from anyones pc, they show
read-only, but not the files within the folders. The
server itself is not showing any read-only attributes. Any
suggestions?
 
If you mean that the Share permissions on the shared folder are Read only
(for Everyone?), then anyone connecting through the share will have at best
Read only access regardless of the NTFS permissions on the files/folders
contained within the shared folder. In Windows 2000 a network user gets the
most restrictive combination of share and NTFS permissions when accessing a
shared folder from the network. The share permissions do not apply to a
user who is logged on to the machine where the shared folder is located.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
No, Everyone has full access to the share.
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If you mean that the Share permissions on the shared folder are Read only
(for Everyone?), then anyone connecting through the share will have at best
Read only access regardless of the NTFS permissions on the files/folders
contained within the shared folder. In Windows 2000 a network user gets the
most restrictive combination of share and NTFS permissions when accessing a
shared folder from the network. The share permissions do not apply to a
user who is logged on to the machine where the shared folder is located.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP




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Click the Advanced button on your Security tab. NTFS permissions can be
inherited from a parent folder, applied to the folder only, applied to the
folder and subfolder, or the folder subfolders and files. And all of these
possibilities can vary by user or group membership. When you are logged on
to the server, you may be an administrator, but users logged on to
workstations may not be - the resulting NTFS permissions may be different.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
All users are set to Domain Users. The share permissions
were applied to the "everyone" group. I have also added
the group "Domain users" to the share permissions, but
still no change is apparent.
 
We have connected a Windows 98 pc to the network, and the
read-only attribute is not showing,. The problem MUST
exist between the Windows XP Pro workstations and the
server. What is there on Windows XP that would be doing
this?
 
a common mistake that i have noticed it that the share groups have too many
permisions. i have noticed that sometimes there are groups like "domain
users" that when you look at the properties they have been set to a power
user or some sort of admin access. this can be from withing another group
like admins (that have domain users listed as a member)

i guess this is probally a result because of people not having acess to
other directories and such thereby locking them out of program directories
and sometimes even stoping programs from running too.

ntfs can contain security settings for multiple users and groups so it might
be time to re-organize the groups and program acess. also beware that
sometimes local permisions can follow thru onto shared devices when the
profiles are set rite. (or wrong in some cases) and check program access
after you find out whats actually causeing it. i walked into a network that
had everyone acessing everything (including the payrole and benifits) after
stopping thise acess i had to redefine several groups so they could use
programs that that should have functioned normaly. maybe it was an oversight
but it would be a good time to remap the users access enviroment and
determin what they need to use.
 
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