I'm having trouble making sense of some permissions issues with my 2008 R2 server. I have one DC which has a local drive shared out to users in the network.
The top level of the drive (G:) is not inhereting any permissions and has Administrators Group=Full control, Users=Modify, System=Full Control. I went through Advanced>Change Permissions>Replace all child objects permissions with inheritable permissions from this object. I did this individually for all three groups. After hitting apply, the progress window came up and it seemed to propogate my permissions correctly.
However, when I look at the security properties of a sub-folder (any of them) the permissions do not seem to be inherited. The user groups are listed in the top level are present, but none of them have any attached permissions. All blank! When I click on Advanced, I again see the list of the user groups in the top level. Under the <Inherited From> column all of the groups list the top level (G:\). Additionally the check box at the bottom of the window for <Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent> is ticked and grayed out.
To make it more strange (for me at least) when I click on a group, select <change permissions> <edit> all of the permissions that I set at the very top level are there. So Administrators have full control and Users Modify.
But there aren't any permissions listed under Properties, Security, Edit......
I've been googling this for awhile -- but I have no idea why my permissions aren't working. Anybody have any ideas??
Oh, and I can select a Subfolder individually and reapply the setting I want and it will then propogate to each subfolder underneath it. But thats a terrible way to control a large share drive. But the problem definately seems to be between the top level and the first level of subfolders.
Would love any help!
Ryan