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Living Room / I need help coming up with a plan to fix my NTFS security permissions problems
« on: August 06, 2015, 04:51 PM »
If anyone wants to help me out with this, I'd appreciate it greatly. Here's the background:
After a long time planning, I finally set up my custom storage server. It's a box with several drives running a windows 2012 server. After doing some tests and research, i settled on using the FLexraid Traid product, which is a drive pooling software raid system. I initially tried the new windows storage spaces, but didn't like the speed and features. Traid sold me on the fact that you can pull a drive out and the files and everything are intact without much fussing around at all.
OK, here's the problem. I set up my first active directory domain services. Then, unfortunately, I accidentally removed ALL the NTFS permissions from my main almost root folder. This was bad and now I've lost access (access denied) on a lot of the folders on the storage array. I've tried everything to reset the NTFS security and all that. I tried all the tools out there.
Unfortunately, the developer of the software raid explicitly has said he will NOT spend a second helping people with NTFS security problems. So I'm stuck on advice. I've scoured the web and tried everything.
Some interesting facts:
--If I stop the storage array and just connect the drives individually, I can access all the files and folders. I can also successfully modify the NTFS permissions with those tools mentioned. When the array is active, however, I cannot access all the folders (access denied). So that's why I'm confused. The great thing about flexraid, the reason i got it, is because you can access the files in this manner.
My ideas:
--my first idea is to uninstall/reinstall active directory on the server. or even reinstall the entire OS. I have no idea if that will work, I guess I'm assuming if all the active directory details are reinstalled, maybe the files will think it's a new server and can start over? i don't know.
--My other idea is to copy the contents of the drives to a temporary external drive, then copy them back over or something. The problem with this is that I'm not sure i can delete the problem directories. i don't want these broken directories forever on the server.
So I'll take any advice. I don't think the files are damaged or anything. Just the NTFS security.
After a long time planning, I finally set up my custom storage server. It's a box with several drives running a windows 2012 server. After doing some tests and research, i settled on using the FLexraid Traid product, which is a drive pooling software raid system. I initially tried the new windows storage spaces, but didn't like the speed and features. Traid sold me on the fact that you can pull a drive out and the files and everything are intact without much fussing around at all.
OK, here's the problem. I set up my first active directory domain services. Then, unfortunately, I accidentally removed ALL the NTFS permissions from my main almost root folder. This was bad and now I've lost access (access denied) on a lot of the folders on the storage array. I've tried everything to reset the NTFS security and all that. I tried all the tools out there.
Unfortunately, the developer of the software raid explicitly has said he will NOT spend a second helping people with NTFS security problems. So I'm stuck on advice. I've scoured the web and tried everything.
Some interesting facts:
--If I stop the storage array and just connect the drives individually, I can access all the files and folders. I can also successfully modify the NTFS permissions with those tools mentioned. When the array is active, however, I cannot access all the folders (access denied). So that's why I'm confused. The great thing about flexraid, the reason i got it, is because you can access the files in this manner.
My ideas:
--my first idea is to uninstall/reinstall active directory on the server. or even reinstall the entire OS. I have no idea if that will work, I guess I'm assuming if all the active directory details are reinstalled, maybe the files will think it's a new server and can start over? i don't know.
--My other idea is to copy the contents of the drives to a temporary external drive, then copy them back over or something. The problem with this is that I'm not sure i can delete the problem directories. i don't want these broken directories forever on the server.
So I'll take any advice. I don't think the files are damaged or anything. Just the NTFS security.