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by gigelul

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WinNT Server 4.0, SP6a, standalone installation, member of a domain.

If you used WinNT and Win2000 you know that the security tab (when you chose to view the properties of a folder) look different in this two OS.
Somehow my WinNT 4.0/security tab window, look like in Win2000 (only this one). This aspect of the "security tab window" is not a problem for me, but doesn't work correct. If I set the permissions for a folder, from a shared resource, sometimes work and sometimes not.
When it doesn't work, nobody has access to this folder (also the domain admin) and I must go to the Server who offers this share, then using the same user account, I must use the "take ownership" and set all permissions again.
Probably this problem is from an installed application but I don't know which one. Because I don't set the permissions all the day, when I saw this problem was late to identify the cause of the problem.
From any other computer the permissions works fine. Also it is not related to the user account.
I don't want to reinstall the OS.
How I can repair this?
Thank you.

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by joseph moore

If you are getting the Win2K version of the Security tab on an WinNT4.0 machine, then something has upgraded the security settings.
And, if they are not working properly, then I think you should just finish the security migration.
You need the Windows NT Security Configuration Manager (SCM). This is basically a NT4 port of the Win2K Security Configuration & Analysis snap-in for NT4. It lets you apply security templates just like in Win2K, but on NT4.
It also upgrades the NTFS security permissions to the Win2K method.

Go here for info on SCM:
http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/scm/default.asp
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

by gigelul

I supposed that you don't see my comments.
I can revert to WinNT security model without reinstall the OS?
Thanks

by gigelul

You remember me that few month ago I read a white paper about this and I added the SCE snap-in to the MMC. Probably I made a mistake or not!?
If this mean to migrate to Win2k security, I think that is finished, but why don't work properly? I can revert back to WinNT security model?

by gigelul

In fact the permissions doesn't propagate to subfolders and files. I don't find an explicit options to replace the permissions to all subfolders and files (the automatic inheritable permissions don't work).

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