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

[Narkinsky, Brian]

Windows Doesn't share disk very well. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 2:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] [OT] NTFS Read-only Status 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 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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