Permissions Question

I have a share on a Windows 2003 server. It has a bunch of
subdirectories. Some of the subdirectories have inherited permissions
from the share and some have there own permissions. I would like to
keep all the subdirectory permissions as they are. I would like to
change the permissions on the share that would let users read and list
folders. I do not want them to be able to create folders on the
share.

Is there a way to change the permissions on the share and leave the
permissions on all the subdirectories the same? I have tried this in
a test case and could not figure out how to do it.

Thanks

NTFS Permissions will inherit down to the folder level that you turn
inheritence off, then it starts over.

Carefully planning the arrangement of the File System Tree makes a big
difference too.

Shares can also be created at any level,...they don't have to follow the
Tree,...so you can control *where* the users "jump in" at by what shares
they are allowed to access via the Share Permissions.

Share Permissions and File System (NTFS) Permissions are two different
independent things.


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"tman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:59012e32-df7b-43dc-8663-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have a share on a Windows 2003 server. It has a bunch of
> subdirectories. Some of the subdirectories have inherited permissions
> from the share and some have there own permissions. I would like to
> keep all the subdirectory permissions as they are. I would like to
> change the permissions on the share that would let users read and list
> folders. I do not want them to be able to create folders on the
> share.
>
> Is there a way to change the permissions on the share and leave the
> permissions on all the subdirectories the same? I have tried this in
> a test case and could not figure out how to do it.
>
> Thanks

tman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a share on a Windows 2003 server. It has a bunch of
> subdirectories. Some of the subdirectories have inherited permissions
> from the share and some have there own permissions. I would like to
> keep all the subdirectory permissions as they are. I would like to
> change the permissions on the share that would let users read and list
> folders. I do not want them to be able to create folders on the
> share.
>
> Is there a way to change the permissions on the share and leave the
> permissions on all the subdirectories the same? I have tried this in
> a test case and could not figure out how to do it.
>
> Thanks

In addition to Phil's reply - IMO it would be a lot easier to manage
everything if you set up your shares & folder structure such that no shared
folder has different subdirectory permissions. Break out your data into
separate shares, so that each one has the same permissions throughout the
tree.