I personally prefer it. I like it since 2003 made the default for everyone READ rather than FULL
I'll go against the conventional wisdom and say that I like the additional layers offered by having the option for both SHARE and FILE perms. -*ASB*: http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > Which reminds me: the default closed share perms on new shares in Win2K8 > are annoying. > > -sc > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:47 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Free Utility to Copy Share and NTFS Permissions from One > > SAN Disk to Another > > > > Whoa! Someone uses share permissions? > > > > I thought share permissions were just a hangover from the Win9x days > > (or when people installed NT4 with FAT32 file system instead of NTFS) > > to provide some security for those systems that couldn't do it on a > > file level. > > > > I'd use this opportunity to knock the share permissions on the head > > and drop them to Everyone:Full Control. They generally end up as the > > reason you can't work out why someone can't access a file. > > > > 2009/9/3 Terri Esham <[email protected]>: > > > What is the best free tool to copy share and NTFS permissions from > > one > > > SAN disk to another. I have already tried Robocopy and it did copy > > the > > > NTFS permission but not the Share permissions. I need to move a > > large > > > amount of folders from one SAN disk to another and I don't want to > > have > > > to recreate all the shares. > > > > > > The file server is running Windows 2008 Standard Server, SP2, all > > > critical updates installed. > > > > > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Thanks, Terri > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
