win2k server file privilege confusion

HW_Hack

Not sure if this is the right forum - but here goes

For a few teachers we setup shared folders so students can get assignments (read - only) --- and others that are drop boxes write only.

All students login as student and we have a user named student. In general this has worked fine. We had a new teacher this year and some confusion in setting up her share(s). Now we have some student files / folders that cannot be opened even if I'm logged in as admin at the server --- or logged in as staff which has admin rights. What gives ?

Any pointers on setting up shares - links etc.

HW_Hack

I should mention we're at service pak 4 --- and when trying to open SOME of these student files as admin - I get a access denied / permissions warning

kryyst

You probably messed up when creating the folder and deleted the administrator user permissions and left only a student read only file access. You should be able to fix it by doing this:

• Right click the folder and open Properties
• Switch to the Security tab
• Click Advanced
• Switch to the Owner tab
• Select the Administrators group (or other as appropriate)
• Check the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects box
• Click OK and allow Windows to reset file ownership