Automating Folder permissions?

[HIESLanMan]

Anyone know of a quick and easy way to change permissions on a bunch of folders at once? I need to change the permissions on users' folders so that admins have also got access to them (not the default when the folders are created from the profile).

[Lowland]

Is it not right that Administrator group have by default access to all shared folders?

If you have changed this permission, then you can change permissions on a root folder and propogate these to all child objects from the root. Just follow the instructions on the permissions dialogue box.

[HIESLanMan]

The folders were created by W2K. I put a path to \\server\%username% in the profile location, and the OS did the rest. However, it gave each folder permissions to the user, but NOT the administrator. Permissions are not inherited from the parent. I can take ownership of each folder, but that is a lot of (probably) unnecessary work. If I take ownership of the parent folder (and all subdirectories), then it strips the permissions from the users (and still doesn't give administrators permissions, it just allows me to CHANGE the permissions). I'm pretty sure there's a way to set the permissions from the command line, and if so, I should be able to automate these with a batch file.

[mmcwiz]

This will work in W2K too.
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q265/3/60.ASP" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q265/3/60.ASP</a>

[HIESLanMan]

Thanks mmcwiz! I also found Q180464, which may do what I need. Both of these will be handy tools, I think. <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q180/4/64.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=cacls&rnk=3&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SR CH&SPR=WIN2000" target="_blank">Q180464</a>