Folder Security

[Guest]

Hello!

Our church uses Windows XP Pro SP 2 on our auditorium computer.

We have several accounts including the secretary's (power users), pastors'
(administrators), Sunday Morning Operators account (users or guest - I don't
remember which), and a couple of other trusted administrator accounts.

Prior to worship, the secretary puts this Sunday's powerpoint slides, (and
anything else we need) into a folder called "This Sunday's Worship", which is
located in the Shared Documents folder. (We do NOT have a network at this
point). She logs in using her login name and password, and copies the files
from her USB drive to the appropriate folder.

Sunday morning comes and (usually) the Audio-Visual operator gets the files
from the "This Sunday's Worship" folder and away we go.

However, for the second time, yesterday there was a problem.

There are generally three powerpoint presentations to pick from. The first
two (one from the computer in question, one from the Pastor's computer
transferred by USB drive) opened just fine, the third (from the Pastor's
laptop - running Windows XP ME - PPT 2003 and transferred by USB drive)
opened powerpoint and explained that we needed to make sure the file wasn't
encrypted and we had adequate rights to get to the file.

When I logged in as an administrator, I could access the file just fine.
When the secretary logged in under her name, we could use the file just fine.
It was only a problem with the AV user account. As I said, the other two
were just fine. What more information do you need, or can you help me out
with this now?

Thank you for reading!

 

[M. Burnett]

One cause might be with how the file was copied (was it copied directly
to that folder or placed in another local directory first?). Windows
will sometimes use the original file permissions rather than the
permissions of the destination folder.

Whatever the cause, the problem is one of permissions. To make sure
everyone has permissions to read the file, either adjust the security
permissions from the file properties, or from a command prompt run this
command:
Echo Y | Cacls "c:\path to shared folder\*.*" /g everyone:r

You could easily save that to a batch file and run it every time after
copying files.


M. Burnett

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Check the permissions on the file that AV could not open and compare to the
ones they could open. It sounds like something is different. The link below
explains how to check NTFS permissions if you are unsure of how to do it and
in XP Pro you need to disable simple file sharing to see the security tab
via Explorer by using tools/folder options - view and unchecking the last
option for use simple file sharing. Files copied to a folder or moved from a
folder outside of the partition of the destination folder should inherit the
permissions of the parent folder though someone could modify them after
that. EFS encrypted files are shown with their name in green though I doubt
that is the problem.

Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418