[WinMac] Group permissions question


Christopher Giles, Systems Manager(filenes[at]cybercom.net)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:54:16 -0400


I posted this to the microsoft.public.windowsnt.mac newsgroup, but
haven't had any replies yet. I'm hoping for a better response here. Any
help or advice would definitely be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Chris

"Christopher Giles, Systems Manager" wrote:
>
> I'm looking to set up special permissions on a few large SFM volumes so
> that Domain Users have read-only permissions, and a special subset (call
> it Group X) has read-write permissions.
>
> On one server, I tried this by granting Read access to Domain Users, and
> Full Control to Group X. All members of Group X are also Domain Users,
> but their "Primary Group" is set to Group X.
>
> Unfortunately, when members of this group create a folder on the server,
> the new folder doesn't properly inherit the permissions of its parent.
>
> When I check the security properties of the new folder, the Owner is the
> user that created it, and the permissions are as follows:
>
> Administrators: Full Control
> Domain Admins: Full Control
> Domain Users: Read
> Everyone: Special Access
> (User name): Full Control
> SYSTEM: Special Access
>
> The parent directory is as follows:
>
> Owner: Administrators
>
> Administrators: Full Control
> Domain Admins: Full Control
> Domain Users: Read
> Group X: Full Control
> System: Full Control
>
> So, what is happening here? And what is the proper way of setting
> permissions to achieve my goal?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I am about to set up a new
> server and hope to avoid these problems on the new box. Please reply via e-mail.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris

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