STUMPED: Sharing Issue on "My Documents" folder

[Guest]

A Users machine is running XP Professional SP2 in a networked environment
(Windows 2000 server). I created a share on the “My Documents†folder called
“Andys_Documents†with the User Limit set to maximum and the Share
Permissions settings dialog is Everyone with Full Control, Change and Read
all set to “allowâ€. The Security Tab has “Everyone†as the third item listed
(below the local user account and the users account on the domain) which show
permissions as “allow†for all elements (full control, modify, etc) except
for ‘special permissions’ which is greyed out entirely.

- On any other XP Pro machine (regardless of service pack) they can find the
“Andys_Documents†share and edit files in this folder and any sub folders no
problem.

- On Windows 2000 Pro machines (regardless of service pack) they *can* find
the “Andys_Documents†share and edit files (and save) on this folder no
problem. However doing the *exact* same operation (edit and saving a file)
in any *subfolder* of “Andys_Documents†isn’t allowed. When the app tries
to save it I get a message that either the file is “read only†(for MS Office
files) or to “make sure that the full path and filename are correct†(notepad
..txt files). I can save the files if I use a different filename, however.

I am stumped. Please help!

Thanks,
Glenn

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Glenn" <glennb/at/team/hypen/sys/dotcom>

| A Users machine is running XP Professional SP2 in a networked environment
| (Windows 2000 server). I created a share on the “My Documents” folder called
| “Andys_Documents” with the User Limit set to maximum and the Share
| Permissions settings dialog is Everyone with Full Control, Change and Read
| all set to “allow”. The Security Tab has “Everyone” as the third item listed
| (below the local user account and the users account on the domain) which show
| permissions as “allow” for all elements (full control, modify, etc) except
| for ‘special permissions’ which is greyed out entirely.
|
| - On any other XP Pro machine (regardless of service pack) they can find the
| “Andys_Documents” share and edit files in this folder and any sub folders no
| problem.
|
| - On Windows 2000 Pro machines (regardless of service pack) they *can* find
| the “Andys_Documents” share and edit files (and save) on this folder no
| problem. However doing the *exact* same operation (edit and saving a file)
| in any *subfolder* of “Andys_Documents” isn’t allowed. When the app tries
| to save it I get a message that either the file is “read only” (for MS Office
| files) or to “make sure that the full path and filename are correct” (notepad
| .txt files). I can save the files if I use a different filename, however.
|
| I am stumped. Please help!
|
| Thanks,
| Glenn


What about the NTFS permissions on the folder and sub-folders the share points to ?

 

[Guest]

Hi Dave and thanks for your reply.

I am not entirely sure what you are asking. Looking at the file attributes
via Windows Explorer (View | Choose Details | Attributes) nothing seems
unusual. The files are not marked "read only" or any other restrictive
measure that I can tell. Is there something else I should look at?

Not sure if this gives any further clues: For kicks I shared one of the
subdirectories. Under the the Share tab I switched the Everyone permission
to include full control. When I applied this I was still unable to save the
files. However I then went to the Security tab and needed to add "Everyone"
in the 'Group or user names' list, and set that to full control. Once that
as done, I was able to save the files either navigating through from that
share OR drilling down to that subfolder from the "Andys_Documents" share.

So it looks like that maybe the subfolders aren't inheriting this permission
(only for Windows 2000 clients, not XP). I do have the first check box,
marked "Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child
objects. Include these with ehtries explicityl defined here" under the
Security tab | Advanced with "Everyone" highlighted.

Thanks,
Glenn

 

[Guest]

What Glen ment was what are the file permissions. If u are using an NTFS
filing system then you should check who all can access the files.

In the windows exployer right click the folder u are sharing and click
'Security'. Ensure that everyone can access it.

Regards
ishan