Windows 2003 – File Permissions Reverting

A file is being stripped of a user’s permissions.

I should have 2 users that have change permission on a file (Tom and Jerry).

What happens is that when Tom accesses the file, Jerry no longer has access and actually disappears from the security tab (and visa versa).

As well for some reason the file is reverting back to “Allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to this object”. The Parent folder is not set to “Reset permissions on all child objects…”.

The file does occur in an INETPUB subdirectory. For that matter INETPUB is the Parent folder.

As well Tom and Jerry are coming through a Two-way trust.

My solution was adding both users to a local group and giving the group permission, but for some reason they could not access the file that way.

Any ideas?

Sean