Tag Archives: permissions

List folder contents – XP vs. Vista

Yesterday, a client called me complaining that, after installing Vista SP2, she couldn’t access a folder on a file share. She could access that same folder from her XP workstation, logged in with the same account.
I paid a service call (across the parking lot; any excuse to get up and walk outside ), [...]

Tuesday – March 24

Home directory permissions issues.
Found: How to display the security permissions of a file from the filer which mentions the fsecurity command. Also found the white paper Bulk Security Quick Start Guide. Information about the Security Descriptor Definition Language SDDL at MSDN. From a comment on that page, I found Mark Minasi’s newsletter describing the SDDL [...]