Modify NTFS permissions without replacing ACLs with Xcalcs.exe
Xcacls is used to modify NTFS permissions without replacing existing ACLs. This allows you to hit individual files, folders, or entire directories. The tool is very easy and can do all this with a single line of code.
While I was at a clients I came across some user folders that never had the proper NTFS rights assigned at setup. Subsequently they all had the default local users group assigned to them with read and execute. This effectively gave all users access to all folder. To make this even harder to resolve, someone had also removed the inheritance check mark and copied all the permissions. This now means that the only way to remove the ACL from the GUI is by removing it individually on each folder and file. Not a good solution considering there are over 4000 users. So time to use a script.
First you will need to download Xcacls.
Search Google for Xcacls, or for KB825751, or click on the link below
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Permissions tab is missing on Microsoft Windows share connected to Netapp filer
If the permissions tab is missing on a Nettap filer share when connecting through Microsoft Windows management this probably due to the fact that the share was created using the filer default security Unix instead of NTFS. To confirm and fix this do the following…
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