Re: setting permissions in windows 2000

I found it interesting that on 7/11/00 12:59 PM Ed Vul said: > Im trying to give apache (and php) ability to write to a directory... in > unix i would chmod the directory to 777... in win2k i right click, go to > permisions and allow "Everyone" full access.... but it doesnt work. > > What should i be doing? Hmmm, that should work, but there could also be a share level permission. This really belongs in a windows list but I will venture a thought. I may be wrong here but I'll put this out anyway. There are two "gateways" a user must go through, so to speak, when accessing a resource on a Windows computer. 1. The Share Permissions 2. The file permissions. If the directory is located on another server then the user has to pass through the "share" permissions as well as the file permissions, if the file is located on the local server you only have to contend with the "file" permissions. The share permissions override, so to speak, the file permissions so if the share is set more restrictive than the file permissions then the share will override and the user can't write to the directory. Um, there could be something else I just thought of. Go into the MMC for IIS and select the properties of the directory in question, you may need to add "write" permissions to that directory. If you can't do it without creating an application for that directory then you will have to do that. -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/