Thank you to all for replying. I'll have to wait until tonight to redo the permissions but it's coming back to me now. Weird when you don't do something for a long time and the simplest thing seems to escape you.
Thanks again, Evan From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 6:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Woah... why am I brain cramping on this!? (Folder permissions) Just remove the inheritance on the few folders that you need to setup different permissions on, rather than from the root itself -ASB: http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Sent from my Motorola Droid On Jun 22, 2011 6:02 PM, "Evan Brastow" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Amazingly simply question, but I've not done this in so long that I can't > remember. > > I have a folder on my file server (Windows 2008 R2) called Secure. > > Within that folder there are around 50 subfolders. Most users have no access > to these folder, but some do need access to a few. So I had set up SYSTEM and > Domain Admin full control on the Secure top level folder. Then I tried to > change the subfolders where some users needed permissions, but it told me the > folder permissions couldn't be changed because they were inheriting from > their parent. Do I need to get rid of inheritable permissions so that I can > have a few folders that have different permission levels than their parent? > > If I get rid of inherited permissions, and have to go set all 50 folders > manually, which would be a pain, what do I need to set them to? > > Essentially, I need User A to click on the Secure folder and see nothing in > it (or the folder list could be shown, I don't care) but I need User B to > click on the Secure folder and see (and be able to read/write to) the folders > he needs to access and change. > > Help!!?? > > I know I had this set up before, but when I moved to a new server, I lost > those permissions. > > Thanks, > > Evan > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
