Resetting permissions on files

[Guest]

Windows 2003 Server, Active Directory

I have an organization that I am trying to help...

Whoever migrated the user data to a newer server did not set the rights up
correctly..

Example..

I had a user that was not able to resave files with the same name. They had
to rename it..

When I looked at the users folder I looked at the security settings...

Admin Full Rights
Domain user Read
Users Full Rights

So this should mean that the user could do anything to any file in their
user directory...

But after doing some more testing and looking around at Security settins of
different folders and files.. I noticed that files from a certain time
period do not have the user in the security rights..

Some of the files only have the following security rights...

Admin Full access
domain users read


so this is probably why they are only having problems on some files...


So my question is what is the easiest way to fix this...

Their are about 50 users in all..


Thanks

Dave

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

The simple way to fix this is to access the NTFS security dialog of
the folder that roots the storage area and there set the permissions
that should be allowed, and then check to replace permissions of
the substructure (all subfolders and files).
To do this you need to speak with them and determine what it is
that they would consider to be the correct permissions, something
you have not stated in the posting.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response..

These are the users home directories... So they are supposed to have full
rights..

I have looked at several and some have rights everywhere I look in their
directory.

Others if I look at files dated 2005 and older do not have rights to these
files...

So I will do the replace.

Thanks

Dave

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Perhaps at one point the content of the directories were copied first
to a temp directory during the move to the new server and then they
were moved from there into each individual folder, but whoever did
it was unaware that a move within a partition would keep the permissions
of the moved-from location. They should have copied into each folder
and then deleted the copied-from.