Server 2003 NTFS network issues...

[OoteR02]

I've got a folder located in a share that I need to allow people to save files to.. So I did the sane thing and granted the group all users are in the "write" permission in the Security tab of the folder..

Now the users cannot save there from excel. They can save on the desktop, and then copy/paste into the folder just fine, but cannot save directly into the folder. Excel wont allow access to select the folder.

Is there a permission to allow reading of the folder's contents, but not read the files inside the folder?

Thanks!

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Check to see if there's a "change" or "modify" permission.

 

[imported_snikt]

Why don't you just create another folder in the same share and have the users save whatever files they need to that folder? Set up the NTFS permissions as needed for both folders.

 

[OoteR02]

Well, here is exactly what it looks like..

Top folder, all can readonly. they open an xls file, change it, and save as in the folder under Top Folder. the sub directory has write permissions for their group, but it never saves right. it says that the file already exists and it cannot be overwrote, it leaves a .tmp file in the sub folder, as well as a file named correctly, but it's 0KB.

 

[Nothinman]

You might have to bust out filemon and see what it's really doing.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Check to see if there's a "change" or "modify" permission.

Yea, they need modify rights not just write. Excel saves a temp file and needs the rights to rename it.

 

[GeekDrew]

Have you resolved this problem? Which version of Excel are you using? We experienced this issue recently at my office on just a couple of clients - the only ones that had upgraded to Excel 2007 - and ended up rolling back to Excel 2003. We don't yet know what the root cause of the problem is, but it was happening on network folders in which the user has full control. Besides downgrading to Excel 2003, the only thing we could find that would fix it was to disable our antvirus clients from scanning files on network drives when accessed.

 

[OoteR02]

This was with Excel 2003, SP3

I didn't have any luck resolving it so that users could simply save into the folder without granting them full access to it. (The files in the folder once saved are considered confidential)

So, they have to save it somewhere else, and copy/paste it into the folder.. Seems to be the only way to make this work for me.

 

[rasczak]

what do your permissions look like at the top level? Plus at the folder in question, go to your security tab and select advanced. if the box for "inherit from parent the permissions" is checked marked, try unchecking that and giving your users the wite and list folder contents permission but take away the read and read & execute permission. you'll be given an option to copy, cancel or remove, select copy. exit out of the security window and have your users either log off or reboot. Once they login, have them try to save directly to that folder again. If this does not work, just go back and reset the changes you made.