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Browse All TopicsOK, I really messed up. I was attempting to move the Users Shared Folders from one Drive to another. I made an invalid assumption, and now I need to figure out how to get back to Square One.
I copied all Users Shared Folders from within Windows Explorer instead of using XCOPY. After copying all the files to the new drive, I stopped sharing the original folders, and set up the new share. Unfortunately, I don't think that worked because the Permissions don't look right.
But when I go back to the Original Users Shared Folders and try to re-enable sharing, it doesn't look right either. I tried to restore the Users Shared Files from the most recent Backup Exec backup, but the restore did not restore the share, so the permissions are still wrong.
Is there any way to set up a new Users Shared Folders with the proper Permissions and import all of the existing folders?
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by: KCTSPosted on 2008-01-06 at 18:32:40ID: 20596667
If you copy files/folders across partitions then they will lose all of the NTFS permissions and inherit new permissions from the new parent folder - that seems to be what has happened here.
If your original files/folders are still their then all you should need to do is re-share the folder and allow "Everyone" Full Control on the share. The NTFS permissions will still prevent access to unauthorised users.