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move Win2K boot/system partition to new harddisk, how?
For security reasons, the MOS should not be scriptable or remotely accessible at all. In fact, businesses (XP Pro) may well choose to forego maintainability in the interests of security, so encrypted NTFS may not be readable from the MOS. How will a MOS be contrained by security settings if it operates

"Convert" FAT32->NTFS but no security settings?
I reconfigured our intranet at work to enable different security settings for each of the available webs present on the server. Any and all help greatly appreciated. regards Look at your NTFS permissions or your share permissions. There are, in essence, three sets of permissions to deal with on the IIS web

Support poll for Win2k or WinXP users with NTFS formatted systems
The only thing I know for sure is that the security is not functioning as securely as it would in a fresh Windows 2000 install on NTFS. Being that you have NTFS, the NTFS security settings may be too low versues the NTFS file setings on a drive that was set up initialy with NTFS with w2k installed.

Need to COPY/MOVE and retain all NTFS permission / access ...
Thanks again Not running Home here so can not be sure what type of security you will have after the conversion. However, cacls is included with XP Home and you can use that, at the command prompt, to modify your security settings after you convert if you wish. Search for cacls in help and support for more info on

Win 2K Reinstall won't work
Later i wanted to remove those and acces the drive again i removed the security features on my account which i ahad applied earlier ......... but what a Now i was listed there and now i changed my settings and made all to allow appplied theses setting and also closed the propterties dialog box by clicking OK.

IIS permission issue? "Page cannot be displayed"
Dave Nickason gwdib...@frontiernet.net microsoft public win2000 general If you convert from FAT to NTFS, as opposed to doing a new install to an NTFS partition, the default security settings will not be applied. You have to take some steps to apply the permissions. You will find a bunch of info about this topic if

NTFS security differences between XP Pro and XP Home?
You will gain the stability of NTFS, but not the security you'd get if you did a fresh installation. This is because FAT doesn't have security and the convert program doesn't reset the security. Secedit along with a security template can be used to get the default NTFS security settings back, if this concerns you.

Setting Security with Palm Installation Windows 2000
... system and registry security (Windows 95 and Windows 98) or shipped with lax default security settings (Windows NT). If Users have problems running legacy applications on newly installed NTFS systems, then do one of the following: 1. Install new versions of the applications that are certified for Windows 2000.

"Convert" FAT32->NTFS but no security settings?
Security settings can be configured and applied to local servers through the Security Configuration Tool Set. Domain security policies can be created by using the Windows 2000 Server Configuration Checklist Details Verify that all disk partitions are formatted with NTFS NTFS partitions offer access controls and

NTFS Security Settings
Gary Heston ghes...@HiWAAY.net hsv tech Does anyone know of any tool which will scan an NTFS volume and produce a human-readable printout of what NTFS security settings are set at each point in the directory structure where they're changed? I know the default at \ is "Everyone, Full Control"; I need something that

NTFS or FAT32
This is the default behavior of the Recovery Console (for security reasons). For more information, see the section titled "Restrictions and Limitations of be changed to allow access to all folders on all drives, but it has to changed using a Windows Security tool such as Local Security Settings (secpol.msc).

NTFS advantages (& disadvantages)
Basically, GetFileSecurity() cannot return the properly SD control flags for "C:\Documents and Settings" and for all of the child folders under it when the security settings in their original state of existence w/o having ever been touched by the Windows Explorer. Well, I just re-read the thread I want to ask you a

NTFS-Security file owner and security settings
I suggested that as he was an administrator on the systems it would simply be a matter of him changing the security settings on the folder. Unfortunately, when looking at folder properties he only has the general and customize tabs available. Any ideas on how to resolve this would be most welcome. thanks,

accessing ntfs file security settings using .net
With that said, FAT32 partition types don't contain any security information, which is the main reason MS developed NTFS. You won't lose any security details when converting from FAT32 to NTFS, but keep in mind that you will lose all NTFS security settings if you convert from NTFS to FAT32.

More help - Security tab missing
If its in a w2k domain you can set the permissions on the file via the security settings in a GPO Kerry "Charles Smith" <c3sm...@bop.gov> wrote in message news:1285b01c26c97$6fbaa680$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10... The NTFS permissions are reset on my database file each time it closes (I have an Access 2000 Runtime

"Convert" FAT32->NTFS but no security settings?
On another recreation of a corrupted profile I lost access to the security tab. Similar things had happenned previously since the user often lost his/her old NTFS permissions since the new (recreated) user could not be linked to the old user in the NTFS settings. In other words under the security settings instead

NTFS security problem on Win2K - SD control flags appear to be ...
Once I reapply the "setup security" (default security) template, all is well. Has anyone found good, secure NTFS file system settings that still allow the DCs to function correctly? How are you running things in your environment? Have to simply not changed the default NTFS settings on those machines?

Convert ntfs to fat32?
Obviously, the primary partition must be some flavor of FAT so that W98 can boot, but I want to switch everything else to NTFS. From within W2K, use Disk Manager to reset drive letters as necessary, and run secedit /configure /db C:\winnt\temp\temp.mdb /Cfg to re-apply default security settings.

Any good defrag program for ntfs?
I have a single 60G boot partition How do I overcome this? I want full "normal" NTFS security. It seems that all files will be left vulnerable if the security settings are not applied. The closest I have have come to an answer is in support note Q237399, but this really addresses Win2K and not WinXP. Help anyone!

XCOPY and NTFS security
Upon checking the security settings for the folder, Windows pops a dialog that says "You do not have permission to view or edit the current permission If there's anything that we can use to wipe out NTFS permissions on a given folder, that would be good. My initial thought was just burn the files to a CD,