Microsoft KB Archive/149293

= File Manager Can't View Permissions After NWCONV.EXE Is Run =

Article ID: 149293

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

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This article was previously published under Q149293





SYMPTOMS
You create a subdirectory on the NetWare server, assign a user to the subdirectory, and then revoke all permissions to the user. When you run Nwconv.exe, you are unable to view the permissions on any subdirectory below \APPS in File Manager, security, permissions on the subdirectory or any subdirectory below that. You will receive the following error message when you try to view the permissions:

The security information for (directory path) are not standard and cannot be displayed. Do you want to overwrite the current security information?

Example
On a NetWare server:

SYSVOL \APPS USER [          ] Assign no permissions assigned. \A \B

On the Windows NT server, after you run Nwconv.exe:

SYSVOL \APPS     No permissions have been assigned to the subdirectories \A      below APPS including groups that should have permissions \B      assigned.



CAUSE
During the conversion, an ACE (access control entry) was added for the user with no permissions, but not all of the NTFS attributes were correctly added to the file. Therefore File Manager is unable to view the permission on the subdirectories.



RESOLUTION
Nwconv.exe code no longer adds an ACE to the ACL (access control list) for a user that does not have any permissions assigned to subdirectories.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: KB149293

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