O.K. I'm pretty new with this s whole 'Win Server 2003' and 'Active
Directory' thing but I reckon I'm doing pretty well for someone who is
teaching themselves with a copy of 'Server 2003 or Dummies'
However there is something I just cannot seem to get to work.
I have created a whole lot of dummy data on the main storage drive on
the server for testing and shared this drive and can assign and change
permissions for specific users, groups and OU's etc on this main share
no problem.
However I need to be able to assign specific permissions to
subdirectories within this main shared drive. I need to be able to do
this as we require a reasonably complicated permission setup for a
large number of folders, groups are allowed full access to particular
folders within the share, and limited access to others, each group
with different permissions for different folders.
If I adjust the permissions settings for a particular group on a
folder within the share, from the 'Properties' -> 'Security' dialog,
these permissions have no effect on what that group can do with the
files/folders from a workstation.
The only way I have been able to work out how to do it is to create a
new share for each particular folder and setup the permissions from
the 'Sharing' -> 'Permissions' dialog, however I do not want to be
sharing and setting up permissions fr each drive as we have close to
100 of them and the number is growing all the time...... can you
imagine using a workstation with 100 mapped drives??
I have also tried sharing the sub folders, setting up the permissions,
then only mapping the main drive and accessing them through the main
share, however the sub folder seems to inherit permissions from the
main shared, not using the permissions that are specifically assigned
to it.
Can anyone tell me first of all if I am able to do what I want, and if
so, what on earth am I doing wrong!!
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