SolutionBase: Managing simple file rights in Open Enterprise Server
Open Object Properties to find your volume
If you're new to NetWare/Open Enterprise Server, the file rights may not make a lot of sense, so here's a list of what each letter means:
There may come a day when you want to make a change to the overall volume on which your files and folders are stored. Just like NetWare servers of old, your new Open Enterprise Server system has a volume named SYS (and may have others). By default, the SYS volume doesn't have any explicit trustees, although the admin account always has access. Suppose you want to assign someone else the rights to be able to completely manage the SYS volume for you.
When you installed the Novell Client on your Windows machine, a little red N appeared in your system tray. Right-click this Novell icon and choose Novell Utilities | Object Properties as seen above.
- S - Supervisor: Grants all rights to the folder or file. Users with this right can also grant or deny other users rights to the folder or file.
- R - Read:Folder: Grants the right to open files in the folder, read contents of files or run executables.File: Grants the right to open and read the file.
- W - Write:Folder: Grants the right to open and change contents of files in the folder.File: Grants the right to open and write to the file.
- E - Erase: Allows the user to delete the file or folder.
- C - Create:Folder: Grants the right to create new files and folders in the folder.File: Grants the right to create a file and to salvage it after it has been deleted.
- M - Modify: Allows the user to change the attributes or name of a file or folder, but does not allow a user to change file or folder contents (requires W if you want to allow users to change contents).
- F - File Scan: Grants the right to see the file or folder in directory listing and when browsing the server.
- A - Access Control: Grants the right to change the trustee assignments of the folder or file.
There may come a day when you want to make a change to the overall volume on which your files and folders are stored. Just like NetWare servers of old, your new Open Enterprise Server system has a volume named SYS (and may have others). By default, the SYS volume doesn't have any explicit trustees, although the admin account always has access. Suppose you want to assign someone else the rights to be able to completely manage the SYS volume for you.
When you installed the Novell Client on your Windows machine, a little red N appeared in your system tray. Right-click this Novell icon and choose Novell Utilities | Object Properties as seen above.
