Re: Permissions broken


"Ken M" <KenM@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ran into a problem on a Win2003 server. I went to change the access
> permissions on a top level directory, and the file permission & ownership
> inheritance broke. Now all the subdirectories and files have no
> permissions and no owners. There's a hundred subdirectories and thousands
> of files.
>
> Looked the problem up in MS Knowledgebase. There was something similar
> (not exactly the same cause). Their workaround was to open up the
> permissions window on the main directory, make a change, and check a box
> saying to have all subdirectories and objects inherit the change. This
> workaround seems to work on the subdirectories, but not the files. An
> error message pops up for each file saying "access denied". I am running
> under a domain admin ID. I can assign the permissions and owner manually
> for a file, but there's thousands of files.
>
> Any suggestions on how to get permissions and owners back to what they're
> supposed to be?
>

appears to not just be me with permission issues on 2003....

I'd take ownership of the top level and force it down, then try setting the
permissions again. That should sort it.


.

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