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Ken L
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I am having problems with the resetting of the share permissions I've
established when a USB drive is swapped. Here is the scenario . . .
I have two, USB2-based external hard drives that I want to use in rotation
for backups. While one drive is mounted on the system to receive the
current backups, the second drive is stored in a secure location, offsite,
for disaster recovery purposes. The online USB drive receives backups from
both the machine on which it is mounted, as well as several other machines
(through a share defined on the root of the USB drive). Share permissions
are set to allow full control to allow the remote machines to manage the
backups to the USB drive. All machines involved are Windows Server 2003
Standard R2 with SP2.
Problem I am having is when I swap the drive, once a week. I use the
"Safely Remove Hardware" icon to dismount the onsite drive and then mount
the drive that was offsite.
When I plug in the USB drive that was offsite, the share defined on the root
is still available, but the permissions on the share have been set back to
the defaults (Everyone, Read-Only). This then causes the backups on the
remote machines to fail since the share no longer has write permissions.
I am assuming this is a "feature" related to mountable drive security
(although I do not understand why the share is allowed to re-appear, even
though the permissions are reset).
I am resigned to the fact I'll probably have to modify the share permissions
any time I swap drives, but I would like to automate this, if possible..
I know the SETACLS tool can be used to set the permissions on a file or
folder. Is there a similar tool that allows the permissions to be set for a
"share"? Alternatively, can anyone provide me with a script that will
modify the share's ACL?
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Please post any responses to the
newsgroup.
Ken
established when a USB drive is swapped. Here is the scenario . . .
I have two, USB2-based external hard drives that I want to use in rotation
for backups. While one drive is mounted on the system to receive the
current backups, the second drive is stored in a secure location, offsite,
for disaster recovery purposes. The online USB drive receives backups from
both the machine on which it is mounted, as well as several other machines
(through a share defined on the root of the USB drive). Share permissions
are set to allow full control to allow the remote machines to manage the
backups to the USB drive. All machines involved are Windows Server 2003
Standard R2 with SP2.
Problem I am having is when I swap the drive, once a week. I use the
"Safely Remove Hardware" icon to dismount the onsite drive and then mount
the drive that was offsite.
When I plug in the USB drive that was offsite, the share defined on the root
is still available, but the permissions on the share have been set back to
the defaults (Everyone, Read-Only). This then causes the backups on the
remote machines to fail since the share no longer has write permissions.
I am assuming this is a "feature" related to mountable drive security
(although I do not understand why the share is allowed to re-appear, even
though the permissions are reset).
I am resigned to the fact I'll probably have to modify the share permissions
any time I swap drives, but I would like to automate this, if possible..
I know the SETACLS tool can be used to set the permissions on a file or
folder. Is there a similar tool that allows the permissions to be set for a
"share"? Alternatively, can anyone provide me with a script that will
modify the share's ACL?
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Please post any responses to the
newsgroup.
Ken