RE: Documentation of servers, directories, software ???

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I see what is happening. The shared folder have administator and eveyone as
owners. When you put a file into this folder, it gets the permissions from
the folder.

It inherits the permissions. I wonder how you could keep the original
owner and add everyone and admin to a file ???

This way we could see who the original owner of the file was.



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Mike Rushton
EDI Coordinator
Trion Industries, Inc.


"Michael_Rushton" wrote:

No, we just lost track of that the end users put on on the server.

We are a small business and have a small IT dept.

The problem stems from what we migrated from. Circa 1996 we migrated 10
PC's from Lantastic to Windows NT 4.0. Lantastic was a small workgroup
product. We moved to NT and the company (and former IT director) did not
move from workgroup to domain mentality.

For example we have a directory called public for the users to put stuff it
for all the end users to use. Well I don't know who set this up, but the
ownership on all the files are admin. I don't know if this was changed by
someone in IT or if the directory changes the ownership of the stuff to
admin. Well now we have all of these files in this directory and we have NO
IDEA who it belongs too.

In our up-and-coming server I will have to see if I can fix this, so that
when people put thier stuff in public, the file is owned by username and
everybody.

NT 4.0 did not support quotas, but this is another thing I will have to
consider in the new server.

These are administatrion problems that a lot of companies are faced with.




--
Mike Rushton
EDI Coordinator
Trion Industries, Inc.


""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hello Mike,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

From your post, do you mean you lost the access permission after you moved
to a new Windows Server 2003 server?

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| As I sit in front of my new server, Tabula Rasa, I was wondering if / how
| other people doucument things on thier servers. I inhereted a totally
| disorganised server / and network and am trying to put it right as we
move to
| Win2K3.
|
| The problems that have occured in the past is that people have created
| directories on the server, installed software, copied thier whole C drive
| (among other things) and over time these people left the company. No
one
| knows what anything is.
|
| Now that our new server is gonna have some massive disk space (one RAID
| Array has a logical disk of 205 GB) we got to find a better way to
organize
| and document it. Drawing form COBOL and shell scripting I was proposing
that
| we do something like this :
|
| ##################################
| #
| # DOCMENTATION TEMPLATE
| #
| # NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION ON WHO
| # WHAT, WHERE, WHY, HOW
| #
| #
| ##################################
|
| NETWORK RESOURCE :
| DATE CREATED :
| CREATED BY :
| OWNER :
|
| WHO USES DATA ? :
| WHY :
|
| NOTES :
|
|
| MODIFIED BY :
| MODIFIED DATE :
|
| NOTES :
|
|
| I would have to give it permissions that so people can read and write to
it
| but not delete it. People *could* fill out one if these and leave it in
the
| directory were software is installed or something new is created.
|
| It is probably a *sheer fantasy* that anyone other than IT would do this,
| but I got to try. I also have some php programs that I could adapt so I
| could fill in a web form and have it build a txt and/or html file.
|
| Has anyone ever embarked on an affair like this to document things ???
|
| Any ideas whould be welcome.
|
| (it is pretty bad when you are in IT and you don't know exactly what is
on
| your servers ... )
|
|
|
| --
| Mike Rushton
| EDI Coordinator
| Trion Industries, Inc.
|


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