On my Windows 2003 servers we create a data partition and format it with NTFS. The default permissions for Users are Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read. This is what we want. But the Users account also gets the special permissions Create Folders\Append Data and Create Files\Write Data.
>From the articles that I have seen on TechNet, the special permissions are not >needed if we only want read access. So why are they there by default? What >purpose do they serve? If we remove the special permissions will it cause >problems? The only thing that I could think of is that maybe it is needed to create a temporary file when you open a document for reading.
