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vdboor
Asked: 2010-04-09 03:46:33 +0800 CST

Windows Vista file permissions does not inherit when copying to a network share

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I've got a network share with specific permissions on a subfolder (e.g. access to developers and freelancers). A designer copied PNG files from his local system to the network share.

These files didn't inherit the folder permissions, but only gave access to Administrators.

Is this a setting somewhere to restrict access, and can it be avoided? The local system uses Vista, the server uses Windows 2003.

windows-server-2003 windows-vista permissions ntfs file-permissions

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  1. Best Answer

    Copy operations should always inherit the destination folder's permissions. Move operations should preseve the file permissions. However, if the person moving the files does not have permission to set permission (if they only have Modify, not Full Controll) it will effective inherit the folder's permissions.

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