Mirroring Novell permissions on NTFS partition

From: Matt Nowell (mdnowell@charter.nospam.net)
Date: 09/17/02 

From: "Matt Nowell" <mdnowell@charter.nospam.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:07:37 -0700

Morning all,

We've been tasked with migrating a rather large (around 1
terabyte) chunk of data from a Novell environment to a
Windows 2k environment. We've encountered a problem in
making the permission setup look like the Novell world.

In the Novell world, if a group is assigned permissions
explicitly at a folder multiple levels deep (say, 15), the
group is automatically given "traverse" permissions for
all previous folders, allowing them a clear path to the
folder where they have explicit permissions. In this
setup, the user only sees the correct path of folders, and
no irrelevant folders or files.

Under the Windows 2000 setup, we can't seem to mimic this
setting at all. If we grant Traverse/Execute to
Authenticated users, the filenames are visible, as well as
all folders that don't directly lead to the level 15
folder where explicit permissions are set. Now, they
cannot open any of the data in folders where they do not
have explicit permissions, but it would be preferable that
they do not see anything that they don't have permissions
for.

Has anyone dealt with this issue and/or have any ideas
about how to mimic the traverse settings on Novell?

Thanks,

Matt Nowell
Buchanan Associates

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