Permissions Issue - Office 2007

[melfineo]

I had special permissions set up so that users could access other files edit them but not deleted them. This seems to have stopped working since upgrading to office 2007, no longer can users edit each others files. The get access denied, when they try and save. The only way to remedy this seems to be to give them the full modify which I dont want to do as I had permissions set up so as to prevent accidental drag N drops and deletions and giving modify wont stop this.

Has anyone else come across this problem and are they aware of a work around?

 

[melfineo]

mmm, okay narrowed it down more, it seems the creator owner permissions I have set have been removed from files and are only applying to folders, I can't seem to change this for some reason in advanced when setting apply to subfolders and files and forcing propogation it does not apply, any ideas?

 

[melfineo]

I have permissions set up so that a user has modify access to their own folder & files. The everyone group has read write. Now I wanted everyone to be able to open and edit each others docs but not delete, only delete documents that they created. So I gave the everyone group special permissions create files / write data, create folders / append data. This was working fine until I realised that office temp files were accumulating as the everyone did not have permission to delete them unless it was their own folder. To fix this I gave the creator owner group modify access at the folder level and this has been working great for a couple of years. This is while we have had office 2003. However we recently started using Office 2007 which does not seem to like these permissions. If a user trys to edit another persons document, when they click save they get access denied and are forced to save another copy. I have played with the permissions but I cannot get it to work as it did in office 2003. The only way to allow users to edit each others documents now is to give everyone the modify permission which is not what I want as this also gives the permission delete the other users documents.

Has anyone else come across this and found a solution?

 

[nooch01]

Hi Melfineo,

I experiencing this exact issue. Everyone was using office2003, and those who I've upgraded to office 2007 all experience "Access Denied. Contact your administrator" while attempting to save a file open from a shared drive. I too don't want to grant the "Modify" or "Delete" permissions because I don't want the users do delete entire directories on the share, or files. What was the resolution you came up with?

Thanks,

Mike