NTFS permissions: How to recursively apply to content, not to folders?
Hi,
I just spend quite a while thinking up a new filing structure with a customer. We thought up a rather complex concept on how to store his information and I am now faced with the quest to protect it from accidental movement or deletion of folders.
What I want is this: Users should be able to read, execute, write, change and delete all content in the pre-defined folders. They should also be allowed to create new folders, and they may also delete those. But I want to protect the predefined folders so that users don't delete them.
I realize this can be done by touching each individual folder and setting the permissions accordingly. Is there a simple way?
I just spend quite a while thinking up a new filing structure with a customer. We thought up a rather complex concept on how to store his information and I am now faced with the quest to protect it from accidental movement or deletion of folders.
What I want is this: Users should be able to read, execute, write, change and delete all content in the pre-defined folders. They should also be allowed to create new folders, and they may also delete those. But I want to protect the predefined folders so that users don't delete them.
I realize this can be done by touching each individual folder and setting the permissions accordingly. Is there a simple way?
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Great, thanks you two. I'll try it out tomorrow.
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Hi everyone,
just wanted to add that I did not manage to get this straight. The instructions itself were easy enough to follow, but after doing so I had issues with newly created items and folders inside the folders that I "treated" as described above. At the end users were not able to delete folders that they just created, which is not what I wanted.
I played with it for quite a while, but did not get to where I wanted to be.
Thanks anyway - I guess what I want just can't be done.
Ralph
just wanted to add that I did not manage to get this straight. The instructions itself were easy enough to follow, but after doing so I had issues with newly created items and folders inside the folders that I "treated" as described above. At the end users were not able to delete folders that they just created, which is not what I wanted.
I played with it for quite a while, but did not get to where I wanted to be.
Thanks anyway - I guess what I want just can't be done.
Ralph
No response. Noted answers answer the question sufficiently
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