Permissions broken

[Ken M]

Ran into a problem on a Win2003 server. I went to change the access
permissions on a top level directory, and the file permission & ownership
inheritance broke. Now all the subdirectories and files have no permissions
and no owners. There's a hundred subdirectories and thousands of files.

Looked the problem up in MS Knowledgebase. There was something similar (not
exactly the same cause). Their workaround was to open up the permissions
window on the main directory, make a change, and check a box saying to have
all subdirectories and objects inherit the change. This workaround seems to
work on the subdirectories, but not the files. An error message pops up for
each file saying "access denied". I am running under a domain admin ID. I
can assign the permissions and owner manually for a file, but there's
thousands of files.

Any suggestions on how to get permissions and owners back to what they're
supposed to be?

 

[Barry]

Ran into a problem on a Win2003 server. I went to change the access
permissions on a top level directory, and the file permission & ownership
inheritance broke. Now all the subdirectories and files have no
permissions and no owners. There's a hundred subdirectories and thousands
of files.

Looked the problem up in MS Knowledgebase. There was something similar
(not exactly the same cause). Their workaround was to open up the
permissions window on the main directory, make a change, and check a box
saying to have all subdirectories and objects inherit the change. This
workaround seems to work on the subdirectories, but not the files. An
error message pops up for each file saying "access denied". I am running
under a domain admin ID. I can assign the permissions and owner manually
for a file, but there's thousands of files.

Any suggestions on how to get permissions and owners back to what they're
supposed to be?

appears to not just be me with permission issues on 2003....

I'd take ownership of the top level and force it down, then try setting the
permissions again. That should sort it.

 

[Guest]

Take ownership at the top level and force it down the same way you did with
permissions. You will probably have to to do it several times to get it to
force permissions all the way trough.

 

[Ken M]

Thanks fellas, I'll give that a try.