Applying Folder Premission in NT4

When you right click on a folder and choose properties, choose security. When the dialogue box opens for that folder you will see two boxes above the section that contains the user names. The first box states
"Replace permissions on subdirectories"
the second box states
"Replace permissions on existing files"
When you change permissions, make sure both boxes have checks in them. Another dialogue box might pop up asking if you really want to do this, click yes and it will go through every file and folder in that directory and change the permissions. Depending on how many folders are in there it could take up to 15 minutes or so.
Please note that you only have this option on folders located in an NTFS formatted partition.
Good luck!
Mike

When you right click on a folder and choose properties, choose security. Put a check on both boxes "Replace permissions on subdirectories" and Replace permissions on existing files" answer yes when prompt.

Another way to do this is from the command line - this is supposedly more reliable and accurate than using the GUI, because you have finer control. The command for changing permissions is "cacls" - go to a command prompt and type: "cacls /?" (without the quotation marks) to get a list of switches and what they do. I believe the switch is /T to change permissions for the specified files (i.e., *.* for all files) in the current directory and all subdirectories. Hope this helps!

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