Seanchán Torpéist's questions

I am looking for a simple web application that only has a simple graphical representation of the current status of 30+ lecture rooms. I.e. Green = good, Red=bad i.e. PC or Projector not working. With a little message and a ETA as well.

I am not looking for monitoring software, merely a way for a tech to flag a room as "technically challenged" until 1PM or until "Friday 10AM". With a message for those lecturers who are interested: "Waiting on replacement bulb" or "Power supply gone"

I know this is a simple thing to code up yourself, but I am looking for something that has been around for a few years that has some cool extra little functionality that you wouldn't think of yourself. I just can't find anything like that out there.

And just to be clear: not monitoring software, more like lecturer feedback web app.

Also: Not room bookings or timetabling. These would actually be a drawback for what I have in mind.

Is there a way to see folder/file permissions in a collapsable tree view in Windows?

What I think I need is something like:

+ folder1 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
+ folder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[RWX],JoesWife[R--]Administrators[RWX]]

And so on for lots of folders.

Ideally the tool would do something like below; when the "+" is clicked:

- folder1
|---+ Subfolder1 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
|---+ Subfolder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
|
+ folder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[RWX],JoesWife[R--]Administrators[RWX]]

Does something like this exist for Windows? I need to scan hundreds of folders for their permissions and would prefer not to do the right click and "Properties | Security | Advanced" just to see the permissions.

We need to set permissions on users' directories on a Windows 2000 Server. This happens regularly enough and they must also be set in the order below or the backups crap out. This is the basic script:

XCACLS foldername /g Administrators:OF /T /C /Y  
XCACLS foldername /E /g "DOM\Enterprise Admins":OF /T /C /Y  
XCACLS foldername /E /g SYSTEM:OF /T /C /Y  
XCACLS foldername /E /g STAFF\username:ORWEDC /T /C /Y  

My problem is that this script doesn't work on all files in some directories. The files it seems to fail on are long filenames and deeply nested directories.

Does anyone know of a script that doesn't mind long filenames and takes large paths in its stride?

I have come across a XCACLS.vbs script from Microsoft, but it works differently and I'm not sure if it works with these large filenames also.