RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] NTFS Read-only Status

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:42:57 -0700

I’m actually talking about c) a logical disk visible on multiple servers.

 

(It’s an HP MSA-1000 SAN with a particular logical disk configured via SSP to be viewable on all SAN servers for “shared storage”. I cannot find anything about this on HP’s website. I’ll burn a call to support tomorrow I guess.)

 

I only want one of the multiple servers to have write access to the disk. There are a whole slew of issues I can imagine otherwise.

 

Thanks for your reply,

Michael

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 1:06 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] NTFS Read-only Status

 

first of all - are you sure you're

a) talking about a volume (e.g. physical or logical disk?) that you want to mount on one box, or

b) are you talking about a share with data, which you want to make available to others, but they should only read from it?

 

if a), this is simply related to ACLs (Access Control Lists = Permissions, set via the Security tab) at the root of the drive - mounting the drive itself doesn't allow to configure it for read-only.  But you can remove the "Everyone - Full Control" ACLs and replace them with something you'd preferr (e.g. Administrators - Full Control and Users - Read Only).  XCACLS is one of those magic programs, which can do this for you.

 

if b), you simply set read-access at the share-level before you mount the share for your users. This is now default in Win2003, but prior versions grant Everyone Fullcontrol at the share-level.

 

 

/Guido

 

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:44 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] NTFS Read-only Status

I've tried this on other groups, and it is not A/D related. But you guys know so much...

 

I want a way to mount an NTFS volume read-only. I want a magic command like "mode e: read-only". :-)

 

It is clear to me (and I've found references) that this is supported with NTFS (Windows XP and above), but I cannot figure out/find out how to set it.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Michael

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