ACK, a DC with file serving open for students? Sorry but as a fellow edu type I 
vote 'very bad' on that idea.

Leave the old unused ACL on the folders, it won't hurt anything.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walker, Clay [mailto:c...@bridgeportisd.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:45 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: NTFS Permissions
> 
> Good morning everyone:
> Here's the scenario.  I have a server originally setup as a member
> server (Win 2003 Ent R2).  This server acts as a file server that
> houses
> all of the students' home directories.  I setup a local group on this
> server giving read/write permissions to all teachers so they can
> monitor
> the students' home directories as needed.
> 
> Over the Christmas break, I get the bright idea to DCPROMO the server
> to
> a domain controller.  The DCPROMO is successful, BUT, stupid me forgot
> about the local group "FAC-STAFF" that has read/write permissions on
> every folder and file in the student share.
> 
> I know I can use xcacls to give a new domain group read/write
> permissions to the files and folders, but now I need a command line
> util
> to get rid of the invalid ACL entry (the dreaded SID entry) on every
> file/folder.
> 
> When I run an xcacls.vbs on an existing file with invalid entries, I
> get
> this:
> 
> Allowed  BUILTIN\Administrators  Full Control          This Folder,
> Subfolde
> Allowed  \                       Modify                This Folder,
> Subfolde
> 
> I tried to do an xcacls.vbs /r on the "\" account, but it did not work.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all of the help and funny comments that will
> ensue.
> 
> Clay
> 
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