For Windows 2000. Under Windows NT folders, btw, are treated as any other file in many respects even though their permissions, as related above, have slightly different effects. The major difference with a folder you can specify the permissions that files created in that folder will inherit. To add inherited permissions to a folder, simply use lowercased permission letters. Note that inherited permissions are kept seperate from normal permissions.
Some rows are for normal permissions.
Others are for the inherited ones. Permissions, btw, are valid only on NTFS file systems, which are an option under Windows NT and Windows 2000 only. You can not use any of this functionality on simple consumer-grade operating systems such as Windows 98. SID and the AccessMask Some of these functions may return the fields SID and AccessMask. You can safely just ignore these fields if you wish, but, for those of you who hardcore into managing your file permissions they can be very useful for working through the occasional difficult permissions problem that may come up.