2nd issue of the day. NT machine and sbs2k

hi... (again)

got an NT box which isn't part of the sbs2k domain, but needs to use a share
that is part of the domain. The share in question is a snap drive..
i would like the NT machine to place files on the share with permissions set
to allow everyone full access. but it always seems to place them as read
only. Talking to users they say it has been an ongoing problem that the
shares change permissions seemingly randomly.. although this is a new
customer and i haven't built up a picture of things yet.

So the question is.. how do i force it to put files on the share so that
everyone can access them and move them between folders. there is another
issue as these files are being produced by a piece of s/ware that i'm not
aquainted with yet so it may be down to that..

any advice greatly appreciated.

Dave
Wed Dec 24 12:28:19 CST 2003

No first hand knowledge, but a couple of quick ideas. First of all, I don't
think that the snap servers use NTFS - the permissions are set on the snap,
not on the windows box. Even if the snap is using the domain accounts to
set permissions, that's set in the snap GUI and you can probably just add
the NT box to the list there. I'd go to the snap web site and download the
doc about setting permissions, since I'm pretty sure the problem is there
rather than on the windows server - if nothing else, a windows server
changing permissons randomly would seem to be a very uncommon event.

Secondly, since the snap is a network attached device, can you set the NT
server that's not part of the SBS domain to access the snap directly? I had
a situation where I needed to give the users access to a print server that
was part of a legacy Unix domain. This was a real pain because I had to
create and configure an account for each user on Unix, for no reason other
than to allow printing. Eventually I decided to try treating the print
server as part of the windows domain - set it up with the same IP and
everything on a win2k box. Now it works fine from both Unix and Windows.
I'm thinking you may have a similar situation with the snap - you should be
able to configure it to accept data from the NT box in addition to its
existing configuration, without effecting its ability to do what it already
does.



"billyw" <b@brainless.net> wrote in message
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> hi... (again)
>
> got an NT box which isn't part of the sbs2k domain, but needs to use a
share
> that is part of the domain. The share in question is a snap drive..
> i would like the NT machine to place files on the share with permissions
set
> to allow everyone full access. but it always seems to place them as read
> only. Talking to users they say it has been an ongoing problem that the
> shares change permissions seemingly randomly.. although this is a new
> customer and i haven't built up a picture of things yet.
>
> So the question is.. how do i force it to put files on the share so that
> everyone can access them and move them between folders. there is another
> issue as these files are being produced by a piece of s/ware that i'm not
> aquainted with yet so it may be down to that..
>
> any advice greatly appreciated.
>
>
>

billyw
Wed Dec 24 14:14:00 CST 2003

thanks a lot this is food for thought..


"Dave Nickason" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:%23h4o1ukyDHA.3196@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> No first hand knowledge, but a couple of quick ideas. First of all, I
don't
> think that the snap servers use NTFS - the permissions are set on the
snap,
> not on the windows box. Even if the snap is using the domain accounts to
> set permissions, that's set in the snap GUI and you can probably just add
> the NT box to the list there. I'd go to the snap web site and download
the
> doc about setting permissions, since I'm pretty sure the problem is there
> rather than on the windows server - if nothing else, a windows server
> changing permissons randomly would seem to be a very uncommon event.
>
> Secondly, since the snap is a network attached device, can you set the NT
> server that's not part of the SBS domain to access the snap directly? I
had
> a situation where I needed to give the users access to a print server that
> was part of a legacy Unix domain. This was a real pain because I had to
> create and configure an account for each user on Unix, for no reason other
> than to allow printing. Eventually I decided to try treating the print
> server as part of the windows domain - set it up with the same IP and
> everything on a win2k box. Now it works fine from both Unix and Windows.
> I'm thinking you may have a similar situation with the snap - you should
be
> able to configure it to accept data from the NT box in addition to its
> existing configuration, without effecting its ability to do what it
already
> does.
>
>
>
> "billyw" <b@brainless.net> wrote in message
> news:OYEW3MhyDHA.2720@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > hi... (again)
> >
> > got an NT box which isn't part of the sbs2k domain, but needs to use a
> share
> > that is part of the domain. The share in question is a snap drive..
> > i would like the NT machine to place files on the share with permissions
> set
> > to allow everyone full access. but it always seems to place them as read
> > only. Talking to users they say it has been an ongoing problem that the
> > shares change permissions seemingly randomly.. although this is a new
> > customer and i haven't built up a picture of things yet.
> >
> > So the question is.. how do i force it to put files on the share so that
> > everyone can access them and move them between folders. there is another
> > issue as these files are being produced by a piece of s/ware that i'm
not
> > aquainted with yet so it may be down to that..
> >
> > any advice greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
>
>