So I've setup folder redirection and I've noticed a problem with the permissions. I followed Microsofts best practice guide.
What happens is that when I as an admin copy a file to someone's redirected My Docs folder, they don't have access to it.
I looked at the security and noticed that rights are being obtained from the root folder, not the parent object. If I apply the permissions to all child objects, its fine, but eventually this is going to come up again. I attached screenshots of the security tab for the root folder (userdata), a folder in My Documents and a friend's My Documents at another company" to help illustrate. Notice that my folder is getting its permissions from the root folder while my friend's is getting it from the parent object
Thanks
the root folder for folder redirection
a folder with my documents
A folder within my friend's my documents
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The owner will depend on who created the file. If I copy a file to a users' My Documents, I'll be the owner of it, if a user creates the file or folder, they'll be the owner of it.
What I want to happen is if I copy a file to their my docs folder, they have access to it because it should enherit the parent object's security, however it is not doing that.
Right, but wouldn't the object owner be the user account that created the file or folder?
If I'm logged into a my computer and I create a file or folder, my user account would be the owner of the file or folder. If I copy a file to another user's folder, I would be the owner of that document, buy they should still have access to it.
But getting back to the problem is that a folder or file withn a users' my documents is not inheriting the security from the parent object, but rather the root folder I setup for folder redirection.
To answer your question, the owner has full control for subfolders and files only
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Thank you for the link, but that's the guide I followed.
Using the example provided by Microsoft: "folderdir" is the same as my "userdata"
The problem is that all child objects are inheriting permissions from only the "userdata" folder or the root folder and NOT the parent object. That is the problem. Even if I reset permissions to all child objects, they will still only inherit the permissions from the "userdata" folder and not the parent ojbect.
I attached a screenshot of the folders in order of paths.
\\server\userdata\jschomer
If you notice, every folder after the userdata folder is getting its permissions from the userdata folder and not the parent object. So when I copied the file, test.txt to the "unused" folder in jschomer's my docs, it didn't get the permissions from the enclosing folder but rather kept its own. I thought if you copied a file to a different location, it would inherit its enclosing folder's permissions.
Thanks
My Docs folder created by AD tab1 Don't know why it show "support's"
User Account folder created by AD tab1
User Account folder created by AD tab2
User created folder in My Docs tab2
Document copied from server to her folder
My Docs folder created by AD tab2
User created folder in My Docs tab1
Document copied from server to her folder
Root Folder (Userdata Folder) tab1
Root Folder (Userdata Folder) tab2
The "inherited from" column informs about the root of where the permissions are configured (manual) and is transitive when inherited multiple times.
Configure the user's home folder (D:\userdata\%username%) to grant the user full control of "this folder, subfolders and files" to let the permissions grant the user access to the files copied to folder by administrator.
When another user copies/moves files into the folder, he will be the creator/owner of the file. If folder permissions are configured to rely on creator owner instead of the current user, permissions will not be given to the owner of the parent folder.
Permissions also depends on how the file is copied/moved into the target folder
* copy/move between partitions or copy inside same partition inherits permissions from target folder.
* move inside same partition will retain original permission.
accept http:#24941309 and/or http:#24940249
Not possibly to solve this automatically without configuring the permissions for each user's folder to grant the individual user instead of using creator/owner permissions on the folder.
Ownership of a file will not be inherited from the folder when another user copies a file into the folder. If only relying the permissions on creator/owner instead of the invidual user expected to be owner of folder, ownership of the file nead to be transfered to the user to grant him access to the file.
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by: chukuPosted on 2009-07-24 at 07:48:36ID: 24935430
check the Owner security permissions
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