"Greenmynci" <Greenmynci.3o1jnb@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> I have a directory with ~1600 home folders in it that have incorrect
> share permissions - currently set to :
>
> Administrators - full control
> Everyone - Read
>
> whereas i need them all to be
>
> Administrators - full control
> Everyone - Change / Read
>
> NTFS permissions are fine, its just the share permissions that need
> changing.  Does anyone know of a script or method to set these
> permission en masse ?

"Greenmynci" <Greenmynci.3o2bfc@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> The folders are named after user id's ie
>
> 10445634
> 16482826
> 18457358
> etc.
>
> the respective shares are
>
> 10445634$
> 16482826$
> 18457358$
>
> I can't change the parent folder structure (D:\users\<homefolder>) ,as
> the home folders are created using a import script which relies on a
> fixed path and is out of my control.
>
> Thanks for your help with this.

> "Greenmynci" <Greenmynci.3o2bfc@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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>> The folders are named after user id's ie
>>
>> 10445634
>> 16482826
>> 18457358
>> etc.
>>
>> the respective shares are
>>
>> 10445634$
>> 16482826$
>> 18457358$
>>
>> I can't change the parent folder structure (D:\users\<homefolder>)
>> ,as the home folders are created using a import script which relies
>> on a fixed path and is out of my control.
>>
>> Thanks for your help with this.
>
> Sorry, but I could not find what I said I might have at work regarding
> setting permissions on shares. I might have been thinking of folders
> when I said that.
>
> That said, if your import script creates the folders, and presumably
> shares them and applies the permissions, does it also set the user's
> account to reference that share?
>
> Regardless, if you can modify the home folder attribute of the user
> accounts from \\server\usernameshare$ to give a UNC path to the
> folder, then the permissions on the share will have no effect.
>
> For example, my home folder is contained in folder "E:\Users\", which
> is shared as \\servername\users$. My home folder was originally
> shared out separatley as something like \\servername\Al$, which is
> the value that was originally used for my home folder attribute.
>
> Without changing anything on the fileserver, I was able to change the
> home folder attribute from \\servername\Al$ to
> \\servername\Users$\Al. Of course, we did this, not just for me, but
> for all users. We then deleted all the individual shares as they were
> no longer required.
> The benefits:
>
> - fewer shares need to be defined on the server;
> - we do not need to remember to modify the share as required when a
> home folder is delete, renamed, or relocated;
> - we never have orphaned shares to delete.
>
> the only problem I am aware of:
>
> - not well supported on w98 clients.
>
>
> /Al