Hello,
SBS2k. I bought and installed two SCSI drives into my server yesterday to
add to the single drive I had in the server before to make a total of three.
I decided to move the SQL databases and Exchange databases to one drive and
the User Shared Folders and Company Shared Folders, as well as my roaming
user profile folders, to the third drive.
The transfer of the SQL databases went okay. Exchange also went okay, or so
I thought until I did a backup and it is telling me the file may be corrupt,
but that is a different post in this group.
The problem I am referring to here is when I tried to transfer the files to
the new drive. I have three sets of files to transfer:
C:\Users Shared Folders
C:\Company Shared Folders
C:\Users Profile Folders
The users shared and company shared folders are pretty evident. They are the
ones installed by SBS setup. The third folder, users profile folders, is
another folder I created on the C: drive to hold the Roaming User Profiles
for each of my users.
The problem is that when I try to xcopy the Users Shared Folders over, it
begins to work and copies the Administrator shared folder (the first one),
but when it gets to the first user (AFoy), it created the folder, copies the
first two files (one being a Power Point doc and the other, the desktop.ini
file), then I get an 'Access Denied' message.
Then, when I go to xcopy the Users Profile Folders over, nothing is copied
(there is not Administrator roaming user profile) and I receive the
following message:
Access denied
Unable to create directory - F:\Users Profile Folders\AFoy
On the Company Shared Folders, the xcopy command works well and copies the
files with the appropriate permissions. The problem is that in the past, I
have moved users shared files and folders (users no longer here) to a folder
called 'Old Files' in the Company folder and when the xcopy command gets to
those folders, I get the same permissions problem message. I am sure the
reason it is not working is the same reason the Users Shared and Users
Profile xcopies are not working.
I know that it is some sort of permissions thing. I need the permissions
changed just long enough to copy the files over. I don't want access to
these people's files and I really don't want to. Any ideas on how I get
these files moved using xcopy?
On the subject of moving all these files to the other drive, I have one more
question. XCopy seems to do a good job copying to the new drive retaining
permissions, but of course shares are a different story. To complete the
process of the move, after the xcopy, do you just delete the share on the C
drive and recreate it, with the same permissions, on the new drive? The
reason I ask is because I have lots of shared folders within the files I am
moving (in the company folder, plus, all the files I have set up for caching
on local laptops) and want to make sure that no user maps are lost in the
process.
I also appreciate the help on this question. Thanks,
Chris