Newly scanned documents not inheriting permissions from containing folder

Question

 
I have four Pcs that all see each other on a local network.  I just bought a new Xerox scanner and my goal is to scan
documents from it into one of the PCs into a shared directory so that all 4 PCs will then have access to these scanned
documents.  The host PC is running Vista. The problem I'm having is that the newly scanned documents are not visible or
accessible to the other three PCs.  The shared directory and any existing files in the directory are accessible.  I have
included Everyone with Full Control in the permissions for the folder, and set it to give these permissions to all files
and subfolders.  However, when a new files is scanned in and created, I see that Everyone is not listed there in the
permissions of the file. I can unshare and reshare the containing folder and then Everyone does appear in the permissions
list, but that really is inconvenient to have to do that every time I scan a new file in.  I also can copy the new file to
another folder and then back into the shared folder and the Everyone user will be in the permissions list.
But can someone please tell me why the newly scanned document just doesn't inherit the exact permissions of the containing
folder in the first place???  And yes I have tried everyone option there is under the sharing and Security tabs and their
advanced and customized options for the containing folder and nothing seems to work.

Answer 1

I have had the same problem on an office network.  I host the shared directory from my machine and provide user accounts on my machine that employees use to login to the shared folder and grab newly scanned documents.  Each of their accounts are set as administrator to give max permissions to the files.  My problem was that the new scanned files (PDF) were not inherenting the permissions of the parent directory.  I tried everything I could to resolve the issue and then found this thread.  Here's how I'm currently handling this problem:
I created a batch file like this:
:TOP
@echo off
icacls c:\tempworks /inheritance:e
PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 60000 >NUL
GOTO TOP
The ping command forces a 60sec pause in the script.
The directory you are having problems with needs to be the directory on line 3...
Throw that batch file on the desktop and let it run.  It requires virtually no system resources to operate and sends a forced inheritance command to the directory every minute to tell it to make any new files visable in the directory to all users.
I know it's a Jimmy Rig solution, but it works flawlessly and any more time spent on this issue probably would have made me go insane.