Question

i am trying to write a script which adds”CreatorOwner” permission to profile$ folders on all file servers;

i.e , add “CreatorOwner” permissions to “\FileServer\Profile$”

can anybody tell me whats the command and syntax for it?

Please do ask if any questions.

Answer 1

One way of doing this is using WMI and UNC paths.

$AccessRule = New-Object  system.security.accesscontrol.filesystemaccessrule("CREATOR OWNER","FullControl","ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit","InheritOnly","Allow")
$profileshare = Get-WmiObject Win32_Share -ComputerName fileserver -Filter "name = 'profile$'"
$driveletter, $path = $profileshare.path
$path = $path.TrimStart("\")
$ACL = Get-Acl "\\fileserver\$driveletter`$\$path"
$ACL.SetAccessRule($AccessRule)
Set-Acl \\fileserver\$driveletter`$\$path -AclObject $ACL

Now if you have a list of server names you could do the following:

$servers = @("fileserver1","fileserver2","fileserver3")
$AccessRule = New-Object  system.security.accesscontrol.filesystemaccessrule("CREATOR OWNER","FullControl","ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit","InheritOnly","Allow")
$servers | % {
$profileshare = Get-WmiObject Win32_Share -ComputerName $_ -Filter "name = 'profile$'"
$driveletter, $path = $profileshare.path
$path = $path.TrimStart("\")
$ACL = Get-Acl "\\$_\$driveletter`$\$path"
$ACL.SetAccessRule($AccessRule)
Set-Acl \\$_\$driveletter`$\$path -AclObject $ACL
}