December 29, 2010 0

Setting Permissions recursively via Command Prompt

By in Microsoft

I had to kill an old File Server in Windows Server 2000 but needed to copy all the shares to the new NAS.

I use robocopy for the copying itself but i got to the problem about permissions on the user. I needed to keep all other permissions and add myself to them.

I FOUND A GREAT PROGRAM! ——->  SetACL

This allowed me to put myself with self control in every folder and file specifying only the root dir! :)

The program is much more than this, so check all the examples HERE.

My Commands:

robocopy.exe sourcedir destinationdir /R:0 /W:0 /MIR /COPYALL /LOG:c:\admin\robocopy.log

NOTE: The robocopy comes with Windows.

SetACL -on h:\Example(rootdir) -ot file -actn ace -ace n:domain\user;p:full

This worked like a charm! :) Very good program! Use it! :)

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