Although the owner has full control by default, you can prevent owners from changing permissions on files they create. Do this by denying the CREATOR OWNER user from changing permissions on a folder and that will propagate to any new files in that folder.
But there's a trick to this. When you create this ACL, make sure it applies to "Subfolders and files only" and not the folder itself so you don't prevent yourself from changing permissions on that folder again (you would need another administrator user to fix it for you). I recently wrote about file ownership and other NTFS oddities on my blog: http://xato.net/bl/2007/01/04/pointless-permissions/ Mark Burnett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Harrison Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Share and NTFS permissions That's exactly what "owner" implies. The resource belongs to them and they have the ability to do what they will with it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Share and NTFS permissions We have found an issue with giving full rights to the share: The NTFS file owner can still change permissions. The creator of a file is the owner and has the ability to change NTFS permissions on that file/folder, regardless of what the existing NTFS rights are! This allows the file creator to alter the permissions either blocking access or giving excess permissions. A solution in this case is to create the share with Everyone( or Authenticated Users/Given group...) Change rights and Administrators FULL Control. NTFS is then set as desired. Limiting the share to Change prevents the owner from modifying NTFS rights if accessing the file through the share, but leaves everything else. Drew Monrad All mail to and from this domain is GFI-scanned.
