Microsoft KB Archive/108318

= AppleTalk Rights Inheritence in Subfolders =

Article ID: 108318

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

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This article was previously published under Q108318



SUMMARY
In Windows NT Advanced Server Services for Macintosh, AppleTalk cascades the general rights down to each subfolder from the parent folder.



MORE INFORMATION
For example, if a file folder has the following rights

                         See          See           Make Folder      Files         Changes

Owner: User1           X            X              X

User\Group: Users      X            X              X

Everyone               O            O              O

a different user who creates a folder within the above folder would receive the following rights:

                         See          See           Make Folder      Files         Changes

Owner: User2           X            X              X

User\Group: Users      X            X              X

Everyone               O            O              O

The owner of this new folder is now the new owner and thus this user now has full rights to change the rights for any group that wants to access this folder (on the Macintosh side). This can bring up some administration problems because an administrator may want to give all rights of administration to a given folder's owner for all subfolders. This is an issue related to AppleTalk functionality rather than to Windows NT Advanced Server or LAN Manager rights.

Additional query words: sfm prodnt

Keywords: kbinterop KB108318

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