Re: [WinMac] Group permissions question

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:28:17 -0700

You have to add Creator/Owner with Full permissions, too, to the top
folder, then reset the permissions. Also, you don't need to give full
control, only Change control to anyone you just want to give read/write
perms to.

Christopher Giles, Systems Manager wrote:
>
> 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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