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!!!!Read Only Files!!!!Please help!!!!

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by mason

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Last night I did a backup of some several shares on a server and restored that backup job to another server to free up space on the old server. I re shared all of the restored folders and remapped the users. All of them are working fine except one of the shared folders for our accounting dept. Whenever they try to update and save those changes to an existing file they get a "can't save file: file is read only" error but the read only attribute is not checked on any of the subfolders or files. Ihave taken ownership of the share (i've tried both local admin and domain admin) and they still get the error. The root folder does not allow inheritable permissions from parent but the subfolders do. Any suggestoins?????

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by briantruitt

Does the accting dept have permission to write to that file/folder? Maybe check the properties of the file/folder. Maybe during the restore or when you took ownership the security for the file/folder was changed. Even if it did change the defaultis everyone, so that's another question. The root folder should not allow inheritable permissions because the root folder doesn't and shouldn't have a parent. Also check both the NTFS and folder/file shares if you haven't done so already. Can youwrite to the share and they can't? If you can write to it as the admin and they can't it's probably a permission problem. Good luck.

by rvkempen

You cannot change the rights on a root share, but you can create a new share on the root.
Make a new share and set the permissions as they should be.

Good luck.

Ron.

by stillatit

You fixed the share permissions, but how about the NTFS permissions? When the files restored, if the old permissions referred to local accounts, that probably all got scrambled, since the local account identifiers are all different.

Good luck.

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