Hi,
Just a question out of curiosity, not really a problem.
I have file servers at separate sites. The servers are identical (Server 2012, clones of same VM template)
I needed to give a service account specific rights to two shares on each.
-Read Folders/Data; Create Folders
-set for This Folder Only, no inheritance, set on the root share folder
-Each share has around 100,000 sub-folders and files.
I set the rights through Windows Explorer on each folder. On server A, I clicked Apply, closed Properties, and was finished. On server B, I clicked apply, a 'Windows Security - Setting Security Information on:' window opened, and the server started going through every file and folder in the share.
This is not a major issue as the correct rights were still applied, and no rights were changed/added on the sub-folders, but I am curious if anyone knows why one server did not need to do this, & one did, taking hours to complete?