Re: Mirroring Novell permissions on NTFS partition

From: Craig Richardson (crichsys@ix.netcom.com)
Date: 09/18/02 

From: "Craig Richardson" <crichsys@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:39:28 -0400

If you find out, please let me know. I'm in the midst of a NetWare to W2K
migration and
would love to duplicate the Novell permissions on W2K that prevent users
from seeing folders
they don't have access to.

"Matt Nowell" <mdnowell@charter.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:0ffc01c25e75$1ad47130$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> 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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