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.