Permissions Not Copied in Scopy.exe (173062)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q173062 SYMPTOMS
When you use Scopy.exe to copy a directory tree, the following error may
appear:
Permissions, auditing, and/or owner could not be copied.
All of the files are copied correctly, but the directories will inherit the
permissions of the immediate parent directories.
CAUSE
The account that you are using does not have permission at the List level
(or greater) for the directories you are copying.
RESOLUTION
Currently, the only resolution to this problem is to give at least List
permission to the account of the user running Scopy.exe.
In addition to List permission, the resource kit documentation states
that Scopy.exe tries to use the following user privileges in these cases:
- Backup Files and Folders, which allows you to copy files when
your access is normally restricted at the source.
- Restore Files and Folders, which allows you to use the /o switch to
copy files that are not your own.
- Manage Auditing and the Security Log, which allows you to use the
/a switch.
The resource kit documentation also gives the syntax for Scopy.exe as the
following:
SCopy <source> <destination> [/o] [/a] [/s] [/?]
Example: SCopy G:\from\*.* H:\to\ /s
This syntax uses the following variables:
- source, which specifies the place from which files will be copied
- destination, which specifies the place to which the files will be copied
- /o, which copies owner security information
- /a, which copies security auditing information
- /s, which copies all files in sub-folders
- /?, which shows all command-line options
NOTE: To copy your own files, you do not require any special user
privileges. To use the /o or /a switches, or to copy other users' files to
which you do not ordinarily have access, you must be logged on as a member
of the Administrators group on both the computer where you are copying the
files from and on the computer you are copying files to.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.51
and 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information
here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 8/9/2001 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug KB173062 |
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