NTFS security

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We have a peer to peer network - all winXP professional
systems.

We share a common file for correspondence so each of can
make revisions.

The folder security settings permit everyone to read,
write, and modify the correspondence. However, when one
of the network users creates or modifies one of our
files, the security settings are overridden so that only
the creator user can access the new/modified files. The
other network users are denied access to the new/modified
file but still have access to the other files in the
shared folder.

Suggestions will be appreciated.
 
You need to use different NTFS permissions on the
filesystem where it is shared.
You perhaps have something on the parent folder like
Creator Owner Modify or Full
Users Read/Execute
Users Special - Create Files or Folders
and you may have modified the one original file so
that Users or a custom group has change on it.
Setting such as these would behave as you describe
and would be close to default settings in some versions
of Windows.
You need to grant Users, or a custom group with the
accounts that share the file, an inheritable Modify at
the parent folder level.
Be aware that there is nothing that will prevent one
user from overwriting changes that have been made
earlier by a different user since NTFS does not provide
any check-in/check-out to avoid concurrent write issues.
 
The share permissions only list the group name we use for
our 3 peer network computers and permit us all to access
the shared folder.
The security settings screen for the old files which we
can all access also show only the group name. When I
created a new file and saved it in the shared folder, the
security setting screen for the new file (which only the
creater can access) does not include the group name. The
inaccessable new file lists security settings only for
the user who created the file.

When any of us on the network create new files and save
them in the shared folder, the security setting for the
new file lists only the group name. However, when the
user on the computer which has the common, shared folder
creates a new file in the shared folder, none of the
folder settings inherit to the new file.
 
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