Re: Permissions Read Only on folders in 2003

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 11:30:32 -0400

The read-only folder attribute is irrelevent - as Richard posted, check your
share & ntfs permissions. Set share permissions to everyone=full control,
and grant users the appropriate rights (no more than Modify) in NTFS -
administrators/system should have full control.

Ken Montgomery wrote:
> HI Everyone,
>
> I'm new to Windows Server 2003 and have an interesting
> issue. I've created a shared folder on a data drive
> called test. The path would be f:\test
>
> Ok, so I set the Folder permissions to full control for
> everyone, and the NTFS permissions for full control for
> users. This is not a domain controller, it is a member
> server in a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain. Inside
> that folder I have created files and folders (actually
> migrated them from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 servers).
>
> When I check effective permissions, it shows the users
> have full control over the files and folders. Yet the
> users cannot change the files or folders, databases, etc.
> Everything comes up as READ-ONLY.... I have verified all
> permissions, yet still it is read only. I need
> suggestiosn to allow users to modify their data... and
> quick.
>
> Email directly answers to kmontgomery@wchosp.org or post
> here, I'll monitor it for a day or so.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Montgomery

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