Quick one!

[neil_cardiff]

Having just killed my companies complete Active Directory permission structure (s'not my fault - it crashed half way through) I have two queries if anyone can help?

1. Does anyone know of an app that prints off a complete directory structure
2. When changing AD permissions, does it delete and then recreate the permission - hence giving the problem that I have in that all the existing permission have been removed?

Thanks,

Yours soon to be fired.

[plotloss]

On the first one can you not just dir/s and pipe it to a text file?

Matt.

[bigtone]

Been trying to do the same thing myself, and print all files in a directory.

Can you post the syntax for the text file output?

Cheers,
Tony

[plotloss]

dir/s *.* >> c:listing.txt

This will give you a list of all files in all subdirectories output to a text file.

There may be another dir swtich that allows you only to list directory structures, I'll have a look.

Matt.

>> Edited by plotloss on Wednesday 25th September 12:36

[bigtone]

Fantastic stuff - thanks Matt!

I keep telling the managers I look at PH for work purposes!!

Cheers, Tony

[neil_cardiff]

Thats a cool tip, but not quite what I needed,

I needed to 'visually' see all the directories (like you would in explorer' so that I can then review the security.

[plotloss]

To get a listing of directories only, the command is:

dir/s/b/ad >> c:listing.txt

That will just be a list of directories.

Matt.

>> Edited by plotloss on Wednesday 25th September 12:47

[plotloss]

Neil,

Collapse the tree fully (only one entry) in explorer and then hit the * key on the numeric keypad, this will open up every tree branch.

Is that any good?

Matt.

[neil_cardiff]

It would be on a local machine - but on NAS with 100+ Gb data, it has very quickly filled my screen up. Then I still need to print it off (we are an architects and have a huge A0 priunter for drawings so I will just hijack that)

[bigtone]

How big a directory structure are you looking at Neil - print screen and paste into some sort of graphics package, or even into word, and print from there?

I'll take a look at tucows...

Tony

[plotloss]

Hmmn bugger, I'm all out of options then without resorting to vbScript.

Matt.

[neil_cardiff]

quote:
Neil,

Collapse the tree fully (only one entry) in explorer and then hit the * key on the numeric keypad, this will open up every tree branch.

Is that any good?

Matt.

I have just tried it, and the text file is scarily taking a while to create...nearly a 1Mb so far


>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Wednesday 25th September 12:54

[CarZee]

why can't you just restore the permissions from tape:

rough procedure would be to XXXXXX the entire XXXXX structure (or portion affected) restoring XXXX (XXX, XXXXXXX, whatever), but don't XXXXXX.. then use something like XXXXX with the /XX switch to copy the restored XXXXXX over XXXXX..

but this is all assuming an XXXXX based dirctory structure.. if your XXX runs from somehting like XXX it's a different story as all the permissions will be kept in a XXXXX as an XXXXX only store XXX for XX and X as XXXs..



>> Edited by CarZee on Wednesday 25th September 13:11

[neil_cardiff]

To reapply the AD permissions across the NAS is not really a problem, only take 15mins or so, but to restore from tape (we have a DLT1 at present - upgrading to LTO soon) would take 15 mins just get to the first object.

Would be a good idea if it totally went tits up.

The NAS is a W2S Server - albiet a cut down version.

[bigtone]

Found a bit of kit that you can download an 'evaluation' copy of at:

www.jam-software.com/treesize.shtml

Lists one of it's main features as being able to "Print detailed reports which show your directory structure including lots of information"

Any good?

Tony

[CarZee]

if you just XXXXX all the XXX of all the Xs on a XXXX, do :

for XXXXXX do XXXX %a

or for just dXX XXXX from root of XXXX do:

for /f XX in (XXXXXXXXX) do cacls %a

and pipe it to a text file with a > XXXXXXX



>> Edited by CarZee on Wednesday 25th September 13:09

[plotloss]

That'll be £780 please for CarZee's and my time!



Matt.

[CarZee]

Bugger - didn't know I was working for reduced rates.. gonna go back and edit out some critical info

[plotloss]

quote:
Bugger - didn't know I was working for reduced rates.. gonna go back and edit out some critical info

Matt.

[neil_cardiff]

and it's only wednesday