Write only permissions on W2K server

[Jason]

I have a subfolder on our win2k server (a shared
directory accessible to employees through a mapped
network drive). I set permissions on this subfolder so
that certain individuals have Write only permissions it.
They are to "post" their performance evaluations to it
for their supervisors to modify. Write only is needed so
no one else can view besides those supervisors. I set
permission to write only and when they do a "save as"
within word and choose this directory, it says "Cannot
save... The folder is marked as 'Read Only'. I'm not
making any obvious permission mistakes so I don't
understand why they can't write to that directory.
Help! Thank you!!!

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Hi Jason.

Here is a link to KB article about Word permissions needed. I "think" the
problem may be that the user needs permisions on the temp folder that is
used also for Word due to the way it manages files for performance and
safety. You may also want to post on a Word/office newsgroup. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;277867

 

[Karl Levinson [x y] mvp]

MS Office generally gives error messages [that may or may not be fatal] if
it doesn't have delete permission on the folder. I'm not sure whether you
could successfully remove the read permission and still use MS Office. A
better workaround [if your users could handle it] would be to use Office to
save the document to a folder with full permissions, and then use some sort
of simple file copy [like a script that copies the file, FTP, a web server
application that does a data POST or save, etc.] to copy the file to the
restricted folder, instead of using Office to do it directly. If you need
to use Office to do the save, you could try saving it in a non-Office format
such as TXT or stripped / limited HTML.