Reset Win2k Group on Workarea w/ Write Locking

Gregg Faus

How would I go about resetting a group ACL on a workarea that has mandatory write locking enabled on the branch?

I know how do it old school way which is locking every file in the workarea (I wrote a recursive locking script) and then using either "cacls.exe" or Windows Explorer, reset the ACL on the workarea.

I've tried reading up on the CLT's and somehow iwattrib and iwidmap might do what I want, but I haven't found a good example.

It is a real pain to lock every file before trying to apply an ACL (remember, this branch has write locking enabled). It takes forever to lock every file and once I do, the cacls command takes about 10 minutes to reset all the permissions (about 2000 assets). All the files are modified too, so then I have to resubmit them all.

The reason I need to do this is because every so often my workarea group permissions mysteriously are reduced to read. Very strange.

Thanks.

Bowker

Take a look at your submit.cfg file. We had a similar issue when we first installed TeamSite and found that the submit.cfg was incorrect. That might help with the permissions being reset.

You could also write a small perl app that would do something like:

Recursivly call a routine to walk through all the directories/files. On each file do this:

`iwlock $filename`;
`cacls $filename /E /G group:F`;
`iwunlock $filename`;

This would have the effect of 'changing' the file so TS would think it's modified. You could submit each file (see submit.cfg first) as you go too. It would probably run a hour or two, but at least it's automated.