Network Drive Rights for users

[Lance Bateman]

Okay - I've posted some of the "issues" I'm dealing with at the new place I'm at.  Trying to track down why some things just won't work.  I've been on the phone with the head of support, and neither of us have been able to track down the specifics of ---

Network Drive Rights (for G:\Applied) required for users.

Anyone have information for how the normal user requires rights to the G: drive (assuming that's where Applied resides)?

The guy who has the system set up at the moment is only granting "read" and "read extended" from "Special Permissions".  Possibly (I am also trying to figure out what he did on Security Manager) this may be part of the problem we're having with certain operations - such as reindexing winreports, which I have rights to in Security Manager, but it blow up with my network login.

[Jim Jensen]

You have to be able to write to G: in order to make changes to the databases in TAM, do you not? I don't know that full rights are required (though that's what I currently allow), but read and read extended I'm sure is not enough.

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

I think you may be able to get by with Modify rights, but I think ASI recommends users have FULL rights to the Applied folder.

[Bob]

If you only have read rights and special permission, how do you write to a file?  That would be a problem even reindexing as it has to create .ndx which is writing to a file.  Anytime you modify a record you are writing to file.

[Lance Bateman]

Yup, without write, indexing doesn't happen - so it's currently with the one person who is going to have to turn it over.

I think the suggestion of "modify" may handle some of the issues.

Yes, I'm having "fun" (not) trying to figure out how this person I'm taking the system stuff over from set things up, and what needs to be fixed - and trying to avoid just going back to the start over position.

If you only have read rights and special permission, how do you write to a file?  That would be a problem even reindexing as it has to create .ndx which is writing to a file.  Anytime you modify a record you are writing to file.

[Jeff Zylstra]

Since you are already having what appears to be sporadic rights issues accessing the TAM share for certain users, you might just want to start over again.  Normally when a share is set up, the group "EVERYONE" is added with full access rights to that share.  I'm wondering if he set this up on an ad-hoc basis and some of the security permissions didn't propagate down from parent folders correctly.

I don't see any reason to give these users anything less than "full access".  If you want to limit who has access, don't use the "everyone" group, and selectively add users to a TAMGROUP or some such thing.