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Migrating F&P from Netware to 2K

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by akaatomic

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I am currently on a project to migrate from Netware 5.1 file servers to Win2K file servers. My big issue currently is how permissions were set on the Netware servers. As usual, users were granted permissions to folders many levels deep in the directory structure. Netware allows the users to traverse the directory structure in order to gain access to their resources. When data and permissions are migrated to Win2K, the permissions are intact, but the users don't have rights to the parent folders to get to the directories they need. So, my question is; does anyone know of a tool which will examine rights on a NT based server and ensure that permissions are granted to the parent folders automatically? Know of anything close? Have any ideas?

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by chris..

Honestly this is Win2k... actually NT Share securities 101. Always start with the least restrictive permissions and work your way down. You might just have to scrap all of the current permissions and start over.

I recommend that you set the top level share permissions to Everyone: Modify and Domain Admin: Full Control and then apply group specific permissions to each folder and remove the Everyone group on the lower level folders. This will give you the granular permissions that it sounds like you're looking for. A for a tool... check out Hyena or Dameware. Low cost and fairly useful tools in their own right, but I know that Hyena will create a report on this kinda thing.

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