Thanks - that seemed to work with individual files within the user areas scrolling down the command window at high speed. However, it stopped this scroll twice at the same place when it reached a file in an area halfway through the list of users - with the error "The data area passed to a system call is too small".
Upon checking the individual user areas and sub-folders, (both above and below the user's directory where the command crashed out) the new usergroup specified seems to have been added with the relevant Change privilges.
However, when logged in as a user who is a member of this group with the ability to change files- they do not have the ability to map to the share. I therefore explicitly shared the homedrives folder, tried again to map to it from a user with Change priviliges - of course, they then had the ability to map to the drive and read files with the drive - but they cannot modify or write to any of the user homedrives...
any ideas please?
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by: mpfisterPosted on 2006-09-19 at 05:41:53ID: 17551197
open a command prompt, change to the drive and root dir of your user homes and use cacls to add trhe new group:
d:
cd \UserHomes
cacls . /e /t /g NewLocalGroup:F
/e will add the permissions, not replace the existing ones
/t will apply the change to ALL dirs and files
/g (groupname):F will give full permission
R = Read
W = Write
C = Change
Hope it helps,
Michael