I have made changes to the security setting of certain folders but these changes are not propagating to subfolders and files. I have to go in and manualy reset security permissions for each file.The file server is a Windows 2008 server 64bit.Any ideas?Thank in advancedPeter Labelle

Hello Peter, Make sure on the folder properties, security, advanced, you have the inheritable permissions box checked.Isaac Oben MCITP:EA, MCSE

I have made sure that the box is checked. normaly when you check that box and click OK or Apply you the see a window rush through all your subdirectories and files. but that does not appear. and when you check the rights on the subfolders and files they have not changed.Peter Labelle

Hi, Thank you for posting here. This kind of issue may occur if "Apply to" and "inheritable permissions" are not correct or incorrect operations. In order to narrow down the cause of this issue, I suggest we try the steps below to test. 1. Create a new folder "One", double-click this folder to open it and create another new folder "Two" in it. 2. Go up and right-click folder "One", choose Properties, switch to Security tab, click Advanced button. 3. On Permissions tab, click Edit, click Add button, please type a users name that was not listed in Permission entries, lets assume its "U1". 4. On the Permission Entry for One window, make sure the "Apply to" is "This folder, subfolders, file", choose Full Control Allow box, click OK. 5. Make sure "Include inheritable permissions" is selected. Click OKs to close windows. 6. Double-click One, right-click Two folder, is "U1" listed with Full Control permission? If not, please go back to Step 2 and capture a screenshot of the permission settings of folder "One" and folder "Two" for research, please use Windows Live SkyDrive (http://www.skydrive.live.com/) to upload the file and then give me the download address. Also, please use "cacls" command to collect a log file for research. Assume the folder ones path is C:\One. Click Start, type "CMD", press Enter, in the Command Prompt window, type "cacls c:\one >>cacls.txt", press Enter, type "cacls c:\one\two >>cacls.txt ", upload cacls.txt too. Thanks. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

hi ther,e in-line with Mervyn's suggestion i would like to know if you have configured any audit policy, if so please do re-check and if necessary re-modify those audit policies. is this issue happening with a single user or any user who logs in i am interested to know whether local user also has this issue, also please check if this is happening with certain folders or any folder and on any drive sainath Windows Driver Development

Yo - we ran into this to. the fix that i used was to just take ownership of the folder by the security group (would have worked to taken it as an admin also). then propagate the permissions or inherit to it. That should do it.