Vms file permissions

What is the command to view a users permissions? What is the command to change a users permissions? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Honored Contributor. This seems to be a simple questions, but what does 'permissions' mean? Rey I wholeheartedly agree with Karl.

The are also some other, less common ways to use the security identifier system. Valued Contributor. Here is the problem: You are asking this question from the wrong end if you use the traditional meaning of "permissions. The batch file was created, I executed it, and all permissions were back to normal. The script can be downloaded from here.

Thanks for posting, was pulling my hair out after I replaced a drive and forgot to copy off the permissions with the hyper-v files — saved the day for me. My permissions were all screwed up after messing with DFS and permissions getting changed. You saved me quite a bit of time! Great post! Here is a fixed copy-pastable version change path to virtual hard drive folder in the last line :. Spot on! Thank you so much for posting this, after running the script and batch file, the VMs could start OK.

I needed it to restore perms for some replicated vms that had been through a planned failover and were not in the main vm dir but the replica folder buried.. Thank you for taking the time to write this clear post. I changed permissions for all my folders — the permissions were far too liberal!

This stopped my Hyper V VM working! I ran your script and the subsequently created. BAT file and it solved my problem. It seems to have worked! Hope this works! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email. If You Have No Permissions. If you have no permissions for the virtual machine's configuration file, then you cannot connect to the virtual machine at all. On a Windows host, if a permission is both allowed and denied, the denial takes precedence. If permissions are neither allowed nor denied, then you are considered to have no permissions.

When you create a new virtual machine, the virtual machine by default is private; other users cannot see or use the virtual machine.

If you want all users to be able to use the virtual machine, follow the custom path when you create the virtual machine.

Otherwise, you can change the private setting in the virtual machine settings editor. When a virtual machine is private, it appears in the inventory of the console of the user who created it. The virtual machine does not appear in the inventory of consoles for other users connected to the host. The virtual machine appears in the VMware Management Interface only when you are logged in with the account that created the virtual machine.

Other users cannot browse to the virtual machine and add it to the inventory. If the virtual machine is made private after it has been created, it disappears from other users' inventories.

To specify whether a virtual machine is private after it has been created, complete the following steps. The virtual machine settings editor appears.