I am currenlty setting up the classes in our school and have copied the students data files from an old server to our new W2k3 server.

The students have a mandatory profile with three icons on their desktop (ie, my computer, recycle bin). In my computer they need to see a "Public" folder and their "Home Directory" only and thats it.

The above is not part of the issue just clarification for you about what is needed from my perspective.

I am going to use Access Based Enumeration to provide the security so that it only shows the folders to which they have permissions

ie their home directory will be something like this

\\server\share (the share being their year group)

ABE will be set on the year group folder under which are individual folders for each student. By giving each student permissions to access their own folders when they open my computer and click on the mapped year group they will only see their folder and no-one elses.

Now to the crunch. I want to be able to set the permissions for these folders on the fly, ie I don't want to have to go into each folder and set the permissions for each one. The permissions that students get for their own folder is the same (modify). Is there a way to do this? I noticed that in an old archived discussion somebody mentioned a script but the archive discussion will not load.

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/For...ML/009712.html

Chris