Re: STUMPED: Sharing Issue on "My Documents" folder

From: Glenn (glennb/at/team/hypen/sys/dotcom)
Date: 07/18/05 

Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:16:02 -0700

Hi Dave and thanks for your reply.

I am not entirely sure what you are asking. Looking at the file attributes
via Windows Explorer (View | Choose Details | Attributes) nothing seems
unusual. The files are not marked "read only" or any other restrictive
measure that I can tell. Is there something else I should look at?

Not sure if this gives any further clues: For kicks I shared one of the
subdirectories. Under the the Share tab I switched the Everyone permission
to include full control. When I applied this I was still unable to save the
files. However I then went to the Security tab and needed to add "Everyone"
in the 'Group or user names' list, and set that to full control. Once that
as done, I was able to save the files either navigating through from that
share OR drilling down to that subfolder from the "Andys_Documents" share.

So it looks like that maybe the subfolders aren't inheriting this permission
(only for Windows 2000 clients, not XP). I do have the first check box,
marked "Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child
objects. Include these with ehtries explicityl defined here" under the
Security tab | Advanced with "Everyone" highlighted.

Thanks,
Glenn

"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "Glenn" <glennb/at/team/hypen/sys/dotcom>
>
> | A Users machine is running XP Professional SP2 in a networked environment
> | (Windows 2000 server). I created a share on the “My Documents” folder called
> | “Andys_Documents” with the User Limit set to maximum and the Share
> | Permissions settings dialog is Everyone with Full Control, Change and Read
> | all set to “allow”. The Security Tab has “Everyone” as the third item listed
> | (below the local user account and the users account on the domain) which show
> | permissions as “allow” for all elements (full control, modify, etc) except
> | for ‘special permissions’ which is greyed out entirely.
> |
> | - On any other XP Pro machine (regardless of service pack) they can find the
> | “Andys_Documents” share and edit files in this folder and any sub folders no
> | problem.
> |
> | - On Windows 2000 Pro machines (regardless of service pack) they *can* find
> | the “Andys_Documents” share and edit files (and save) on this folder no
> | problem. However doing the *exact* same operation (edit and saving a file)
> | in any *subfolder* of “Andys_Documents” isn’t allowed. When the app tries
> | to save it I get a message that either the file is “read only” (for MS Office
> | files) or to “make sure that the full path and filename are correct” (notepad
> | .txt files). I can save the files if I use a different filename, however.
> |
> | I am stumped. Please help!
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Glenn
>
>
> What about the NTFS permissions on the folder and sub-folders the share points to ?
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
>
>
>

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