Re: Propagating folder rights in Windows 2003 server...

Ruggles,
If your co-worker replaced the permissions then they are gone. You would
need to restore a backup to get them back.
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.com


"Ruggles" <craig-> wrote in message
news:9dae43c6-84ef-40f7-976b-...
> I have a huge tree of folders containing PDF data for certain
> branches
> we have. A rudimentary diagram would look like this:
>
> BRANCH
> --BRANCH1
> ----PAYROLL
> ----SALES
> --BRANCH2
> ----PAYROLL
> ----SALES
> -
> -
> -
> I have over 175 branch folders, and each branch folder contains a
> minimum of two sub-folders inside it.
>
>
> When I originally set up this structure I set up myself (Admin
> rights)
> with full access and gave the Everyone group "List Folder Contents"
> rights. These rights were propagated down through the folder
> structure and I then had a temp go into each branches folder and
> manually assign the users in that branch the appropriate rights,
> propagating them down within the local branches sub-folders.
>
>
> My problem is that one of my co-workers recently went into the root
> BRANCH folder, gave the Everyone group Full Access and used the
> "Replace permission entries on all child objects..." within the
> Advanced tab, and ended up giving all users full access to each
> others
> folders!!
>
>
> I need to quickly change the Everyone group rights back to "List
> Folder Contents" on all folders and also add in our CFO, giving him
> full rights to all folders...but not change any of the existing
> rights
> in the sub-folders (for other users).
>
>
> I can see the two check boxes for "Inherit from parent the
> permission..." and "Replace permission entries..." under the Advanced
> tab in Security...but I'm not 100% sure what effect they have. I
> don't want to make things worse.
>
>
> Suggestions??