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Problems with the File blocking Feature

We all know the 'feature' in Windows which marks files as blocked when saved from for instance an internet location to the local disk. The file is marked as blocked as noted by the message "This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer".

There are ways of preventing this, by means of a GPO setting to force to skip this feature. This setting however works at the user level.

We came across this scenario:
Windows 2003 file server in a simple network environment, XP clients and a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. On the network a Document Scanner is attached, from which the people create PDF documents to be saved directly to a SMB path on the file server.
This PDF files are marked as blocked...

Does anyone have a solution as how to prevent this?

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Thank you for the responses. I am familiar with the utils for deleting the streams.
If scheduling either of these is the only option, I will try this.
I will report back how it goes.

ArchiLogiQ

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I am having trouble getting the streams util to function properly. On several files I get a "Access is denied" message and on other "The system cannot find the path specified".
The latter is probably due to long file names, the first I cannot explain.

Any suggestions?
This is Windows Server 2003, so no option to 'Run as Administrator'.

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ArchiLogiQ

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I found out that the "Access is Denied" message is due to the Read only attribute of the particular file.
Besides using subst for shortening long file paths, I will work on a script that will encorporate both options. This should bring to a solution.

Thanks for the input.

Coralon

Absolutely..

and for what it's worth.. (I have done this before)

subst j: d:\<really long path>
cd /d j:
attrib -s -h -r *
streams -d -accepteula -s *
cd /d c:
subst j: /d

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