Problem with group security

From: Peter Clark (clark_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 05/02/03 

Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 15:33:19 -0700

try completely removing the everyone entry - it maybe
overriding the drafting group as all who access are in both
groups.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am having a problem with a very basic fundamental
>security issue on a Windows 2000 member server.
>
>We have a share that contains old drawings we want our
>drafting guys to be able to access from time to time.
>Originally I set up this share with 'Everyone' access
>for 'Read and Execute','List folder contents' and 'Read'.
>
>However, when the user actually tried to open one of
>these drawings using an application on their local PC,
>they got a ' File not found' error. As a quick fix, I
>gave 'Full Access' to the everyone group, and that solved
>the problem.
>
>I do not like granting 'full access' to everyone, so I
>created a special group called 'Drafting', made the
>particular users that need access to these files members
>of the group, and granted 'full access' to the 'drafting'
>group only. I then reset the 'everyone' permissions back
>to what they were in the first place and saved the
>changes. As soon as I had done this, the user in question
>came over to me and asked 'What have you done?? I can't
>open the files anymore!!'
>
>Hence the problem. Why would what I just did not work? It
>seems to me that this is pretty much as basic as it gets
>when it comes to file security.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Brad
>.
>

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