Guest Wowbagger Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it was definitely an irritation. Workaround included. My server (2003) runs a script several times a day that pulls files off of a remote FTP site. It downloads the files into a temporary directory, then sorts them accordingly. It turns out that the permissions from the -remote ftp server- were being retained during the download, which was preventing people from being able to use the files locally. This behavior goes against every scrap of documentation that I have been able to locate, but the permissions set by the -remote ftp server- were being retained. I even followed the directions in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310316 by adding MoveSecurityAttributes DWORD 0 but this registry key does not work as described. The only fix I could find was to set up another script to run after the ftp download script that copies the files into a temporary folder then moves them back into the original download folder. Why the OS behaves like this is beyond me, but it does all the same.
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