Guest Chris Hills Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Hi Due to an administrative error, a permission was set on all the folders in a directory. The operation was stopped before it was completed. There are a now a number of folders which contain the permission, which are inherited from the "Parent Object". The permission however does not exist on the parent object. The only way I have found to fix it is to go through each affected folder with the following procedure: 1. Open the folder properties 2. Go to the Security tab 3. Open the advanced properties window 4. Untick "Allow inheritable permissions..." 5. Click "Remove" 6. Tick "Allow inheritable permissions..." 7. Click OK This removes the phantom permission, but I would like to script this due to the number of folders involved. It is not possible to apply new permissions recursively from the root folder because all the subfolders have different permissions (as they are redirected folders). Regards, Chris
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted November 21, 2007 Posted November 21, 2007 Re: Phantom file permission problem "Chris Hills" <chaz@chaz6.com> wrote in message news:HYY0j.51122$c_1.15625@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk... > Hi > > Due to an administrative error, a permission was set on all the folders > in a directory. The operation was stopped before it was completed. There > are a now a number of folders which contain the permission, which are > inherited from the "Parent Object". The permission however does not > exist on the parent object. The only way I have found to fix it is to go > through each affected folder with the following procedure: > > 1. Open the folder properties > 2. Go to the Security tab > 3. Open the advanced properties window > 4. Untick "Allow inheritable permissions..." > 5. Click "Remove" > 6. Tick "Allow inheritable permissions..." > 7. Click OK > > This removes the phantom permission, but I would like to script this due > to the number of folders involved. It is not possible to apply new > permissions recursively from the root folder because all the subfolders > have different permissions (as they are redirected folders). > > Regards, > > Chris fileacl.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en) has an inheritance switch. Make sure to test it thoroughly before applying it . . .
Guest Chris Hills Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Re: Phantom file permission problem Pegasus (MVP) wrote: > fileacl.exe > (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en) > has an inheritance switch. Make sure to test it thoroughly > before applying it . . . Thank you! Running 'fileacl [folder] /inherit' does the trick. Regards, Chris
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted November 22, 2007 Posted November 22, 2007 Re: Phantom file permission problem "Chris Hills" <chaz@chaz6.com> wrote in message news:Plb1j.51365$c_1.33927@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk... > Pegasus (MVP) wrote: >> fileacl.exe >> (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en) >> has an inheritance switch. Make sure to test it thoroughly >> before applying it . . . > > Thank you! Running 'fileacl [folder] /inherit' does the trick. > > Regards, > > Chris Thanks for the feedback.
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