Hi everybody In my company we have around 200 XP clients in workgroup and in different locations , so we cant use active directory group policy to modify ACLs for some folders, the idea is using calcs command to copy these ACLs to other computer, but as long as cacls doesnt support special access permission like synchronize, read control, ... etc, so was better to use icacls for exporting and restoring these ACLs so the command look like this icacls c:\folder name /save a.bin /t , icacls c:\folder name /restore a.bin But the main problem is that icacls it is built in windows vista, 7, 2008 , not windows xp, and online is not available for download So is there away or alternative option to solve this issue Thanks and regards

On XP and before, have you tried using the xcacls command: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781299(WS.10).aspx It is included with the XP support tools, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=49ae8576-9bb9-4126-9761-ba8011fabf38&displaylang=en -- Mike Burr

You can also consider SubInACL (SubInACL.exe): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en Run subinacl /? To get more instructions. Thanks.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.