Shares and folder permissions in VB.NET

[GoldenWonder]

I've got an old application (VB6) that creates user shares and sets NTFS permissions that has worked since Windows 2000.

 

Now Server 2008/64bit has come along, and it won't work at all so it looks like a re-write. I'm using Visual Basic Express 2008 and so far can't see to find a simple way to do the following:

 

- Create a folder on a local drive

- Share the above folder (and set the share permissions)

- Set the permissions for a folder within that share and set them to replicate downwards

 

Has anyone got a code snippet or example they can show me? I'm going around circles here trying to find a way around this!

[SYNACK]

Localzuk made something similar without the sharing bit from the code of SetACL (opensource) and was good enough to post if for everyone here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2000-2003/50600-setting-folder-owners-programatically.html#post463920

[GoldenWonder]

Cheers for that - its a shame I can't register the ADsSecurity.dll on the Server 2008 box as that would save me a lot of time. This lets me set NTFS permissions quite easily

 

Not sure why I can't register it - it works ok on Server 2003 and various other Windows variants.

[cromertech]

its a shame I can't register the ADsSecurity.dll on the Server 2008 box as that would save me a lot of time.

 

Very odd. I have this dll registered on my windows 7 machine thought it would work the same. I just put it into the syswow64 folder and did the usual regsvr32 command and it put it in for me. Only use it to create new year 7 accounts through a spreadsheet but makes it a doddle

[GoldenWonder]

Sorry I wrote that wrong! I could register it,but it bombs out the program as soon as you try to create an object.

 

I've had to go backwards and simply use Shell commands to use cacls , which works. Seems a shame to go back to DOS commands but ADsSecurity is from 2001 and theres no update!

[ANB]

It's probably too late but I have some free utilities which handle creating shares, setting permissions, and propagating them accordingly. I used to have them on my website at ANB Software Homepage but removed them when I merged them all together to make paid for applications. If you still need these then email me at [email protected] and I will email them over to you.

 

Adam