Read only Folders !!!!!!!!Urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lisa]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it back to
read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i solve this?

L.R

 

[lars]

by default a share has only read permissions in the share permissions.

1. Check the Share permissions
2. Check NTFS permissions

 

[Herb Martin]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it back to
read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i solve this?

What tools are you using to change the permissions? Locally or over the
Network?

Are you users AUTHENTICATING correctly? (How do you know?)
What does "set LogonServer" show?

Do you DCs all pass a complete "DCDiag /c" with no fail or warn errors?

What does "net share SHARENAME" show when run from the problem
server?

The following command (run from the Server) will give the permissions etc
for each Share on the server:

for /f "skip=4" %a in ('net share') do if %a NEQ The net share %a

(If you get weird syntax errors on unnecessary lines in output, just add an
extra "if %a NEQ BADNAME" after the one that is there now.)

(If you put this in a batch file for later use, the percent signs in %a must
be
doubled to %%a.)

 

[Peter Foldes]

Lisa

How are you Authenticating. Are you doing it correctly

 

[Kerry Brown]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it back to
read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i solve this?

L.R

Are you talking about the Read Only attribute, The share permissions, or the
NTFS permissions? The folder showing up with the Read Only attribute is
normal. It is ignored by Windows and wouldn't cause any problems with users
accessing the folder. It is unlikely the share permissions changed unless
someone changed them. Have you added the deny permission for anyone in the
NTFS permissions?

 

[Poprivet]

What tools are you using to change the permissions? Locally or over
the Network?

Are you users AUTHENTICATING correctly? (How do you know?)
What does "set LogonServer" show?

Do you DCs all pass a complete "DCDiag /c" with no fail or warn
errors?
What does "net share SHARENAME" show when run from the problem
server?

The following command (run from the Server) will give the permissions
etc for each Share on the server:

for /f "skip=4" %a in ('net share') do if %a NEQ The net share %a

(If you get weird syntax errors on unnecessary lines in output, just
add an extra "if %a NEQ BADNAME" after the one that is there now.)

(If you put this in a batch file for later use, the percent signs in
%a must be
doubled to %%a.)

Folders are ALWAYS read-only; and that cannot be changed. They are not
read-only as you expect it to mean in the case of folders. Check your
machine' they are ALL read-only. It has no affect on any of the files in
the folder nor on renameing deleting folders, with the exception of the
system folders.

Pop`

f'ups set

 

[Poprivet]

by default a share has only read permissions in the share permissions.

1. Check the Share permissions
2. Check NTFS permissions

Folders are ALWAYS read-only; and that cannot be changed. They are not
read-only as you expect it to mean in the case of folders. Check your
machine' they are ALL read-only. It has no affect on any of the files in
the folder nor on renameing deleting folders, with the exception of the
system folders.

Pop`

f'ups set

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Lisa,

Reread your post.
Notice how you are telling us what you feel is the problem, as you
have diagnosed it? Rather, tell us what you and/or your users are
experiencing and when, so that we can diagnose afresh.
For example, "user accessing via browse in net neighborhood can
open file but on saving gets message that access is denied"
"I try to view the NTFS permissions while logged into the sharing
server as an admin but . . . "
Thanks,
Roger

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Folders are ALWAYS read-only; and that cannot be changed. They are not
read-only as you expect it to mean in the case of folders. Check your
machine' they are ALL read-only. It has no affect on any of the files in
the folder nor on renameing deleting folders, with the exception of the
system folders.

In essence yes Pop, but your words could be misunderstood.
Folders are always displayed with the Read-Only checkbox colored.
However, one can check or clear that checkbox, and it then will have
an effect on contained files, setting or clearing their read-only attribute.
Following such an action the checkbox on the containing folder returns
to its intermediate display state.
Roger

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it
back to read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i
solve this?

Although it may appear to be read-only, folders are never read-only and the
read-only attribute is ignored for
folders.

 

[LTCustomer]

Hi.

Windows 2003 sp1 broke websites that utilized IIS6.0 + FPSE 2002 about 1
year ago +/-. The breakage was similar to what Lisa describes above.
We had to remove sp1 in order to get the websites to work again.

For the longest time there was no resolution - only the typical know-it-alls
posting telling us we were not the sharpest tack in the box for utilizing
FPSE 2002 rather than running other types website servers.

We eventually had the problem resolve itself when the system crashed and we
installed from fresh a different server o/s.

To reiterate:
The best fix - at the time - was to just remove SP1 (do not remove IIS6.0 or
FPSE 2002 - just roll back the sp1)

Although I monitored the ngs periodically - I did not consistently monitor
them sufficiently to state if a better resolution became apparent. We had
to lock up our server in other ways to prevent vulnerabilty intrusions.

I will look to see if I have the posts anywhere because if one did not
follow in a set sequence the whole system was broken (eg: it is best to NOT
uninstall FPSE & IIS6.0 as some were directing us).


Hope this helps.

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it
back to read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i
solve this?

Although it may appear to be read-only, folders are never read-only and the
read-only attribute is ignored for
folders.

 

[zhuang xiao jie]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it back to
read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i solve this?

L.R

 

[zhuang xiao jie]

I've Windows 2003 SP1 suddenly a shared folders that the users used to
access became read only and i cann't manage by any means to get it back to
read write !!!! what can be the reason for that and how can i solve this?

L.R

 

[z1z1z1]

Check the permissions on the share itself. Check the permissions on the
folder (and files in it) that the share points to. Both sets of
permissions need to allow an access before it is granted.
If permissions are given to groups and not individual users (the way it
should be), make sure that the users actually belong to the groups that you
think they do. Groups like "Everyone" or "Users" don't always mean what
you may think they do.