Hello everybody, I need some help on a matter. Okay, straight to the point. I have a machine at work running Windows Server 2003 which acts as a, well, server. One this machine, there are many shared folders which I need to change their permission entries, such as modifying their attributes so that users cannot change them or their subfolders to "Hidden" or something like that. I did the following. First, going to the properties of the parent directory, then the security tab, then Advanced button, the Edit permission for certain users - in this case, I chose "everyone". In the Deny column, I checked the 2 "Write attributes" and "Write extended attributes" boxes and OK. A new "Deny" permission entry was created. I edited this by selecting "This folder and subfolders" in the "Apply to:" dropdown menu. After all that, I went back to the parent directory, I could see that it could not be set to hidden no longer, exactly what I want, good. BUT, the problem is I COULD NOT edit the content of some files within this folder!?!?! For instance, I created a new text file (.txt), put some characters in it and tried to save but I could not, well, anyone running Server 2003 can try this and see what I'm saying. Copying, deleting, creating files and folders within this folder is fine, just not modifying the content of the files. I really need some help here as to how I can fix this problem. And no I don't want to save files to another folder first before moving them into this folder. Another thing, at home I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate and I just did what I did at work and everything's fine, saving like no problem. But why Windows Server 2003 would not let me do it? Or did I miss something? Please give me some hints, I'd really appreciate it!

Setting any Deny permissions is a bad idea. You should set the permissions to allow whatever you want the users to be able to do. Denying anything is just a problem waiting to happen; as you discovered first hand. Life's more painless for the brainless.

Thank you but I still need more inputs, please!