Inherited Permissions for Folders

[Ranjith]

F1
F2
F3.1
F3.2
F3.3

Above is a Folder Structure

F1 has user U1 and Group G1 who have Full Control over it.

Now I set F2 to inherit the permissions from its parent and propogate
it to the subfolders and files. This works in my machine and I see that
F3.1, F3.2 and F3.3 have access rights similar to F1.

However in my target computer with the same folder structure(s) I
notice a funny behavior. The target computer has many Folders with the
same folder structure where the same behavior is required when the
setting is made in the folder F2.

However sometimes F3.1 does not have the access rights as in F1
sometimes F3.2 does not have the access rights as in F1
sometimes F3.3 does not have the access rights as in F1

Can somebody explain this behavior?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Off hand I would say to make sure that folders F3.x are configured to
inherit permissions from their parent folder on the computer in question and
compare the folder settings to make sure they exactly match a computer where
it is working as you expected. --- Steve

 

[Ranjith]

Steve,

Thanks for the reply.

Is it possible during the manual Permissions Setting stage of F2 to
ensure that F3.X get the required permissions as F1 ?

Ranjith

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If you configure the folder to inherit permissions from the parent folder
for all folders in the path [which is default behavior] then they should all
have the same permissions. You still can add explicit permissions to the
access control list if you need to supplement inherited permissions in child
folders. The link below may help. Note that the creator of a folder/file
will get the permissions assigned to the creator owner identity which be
default is full control. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;313398&sd=tech