Group permissions

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02monte - Mar 13, 2009 at 11:46 AM
 02monte - Mar 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Hello,
How can I find what files a group has permission to in NT? In the user manager I have groups and users are in those groups but I need to add a user to have access similar to another position in the company but not necessarily all the same. How can I find out what access is in the existing group or where that group is listed in security having access to? I have hundreds of thousands of files on several servers. Is there a tool like a 'where used'?

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igoth60 Posts 11 Registration date Tuesday March 10, 2009 Status Member Last seen June 3, 2009 7
Mar 15, 2009 at 03:08 AM
Hello,

I have taken a look at your problem but to be able to understand it much further, I have found a link on Microsoft'a own website which might be of great help to you. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//cc768050(v=technet.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN check this link and if you still have some difficulties, ask me about it I will make a pleasure of helping you.
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Thank you igoth60 for the excellant link. I am fortunate that the vast majority of our users are within a group so that is good, unfortunately, I don't know of a way to know what files the group is assigned. Example, we have two groups, Engspcl (50 users, 32 no longer here) and Engspcls (43 users, 27 no longer here) Both have users in common (yes, lots of clean up to do). I know the users have drives mapped to several shared directories on a file server. Since we have so many files, how can I tell without looking at every single file on the server which ones each group has access to? Also with disrupting business for the remaining users? I have inherited a network started in '99 gone through 4 network admins. I need to get this cleaned up and under control to be able to manage. I have worked in the IBM world where you have a user profile and you assign them to a group then you assign the files to the group. MS world seems opposite, you have user profile, member of a group, group assigned to the file. So is there some sort of miracle tool that can scan all files on a server and list the users or groups assigned to it with permission type? Some sort of 'where used' on a user profile? Please excuse my ignorance and thank you for your help.
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