Re: Unable to display current owner

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 04/01/05 

Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:11:09 -0600

There is a tool called fileacl that may be able to help. It can assign
ownership and you may need to try the /force switch. Of course be sure to
test it out first. --- Steve

http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en

"Don Jones" <DonJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC8E7CAC-CDC6-4A2E-B8B9-E07C851D1D00@microsoft.com...
> We are in the process of renaming users from a format of lastname first
> initial to first.last format. In doing the renaming we are also renaming
> the
> home directories and profiles and have encountered permission problems.
> On
> some of the home directories and user profiles when checking permissions,
> permissions are blank and the ownership shows unable to display current
> owner. I can take ownership and the permissions come back.
>
> We are looking for an automated means to redo the permissions to set the
> owner back to administrator, so we can rename the folders. The tools
> subinacl and xcacls do not seem to work on the folders where the owner can
> not be displayed. If we use the Windows Explorer, ownership can be taken.
> We tried to use takeown.exe which took ownership, but wiped out all other
> permissions. Is there a version of takeown.exe or someother tool, that
> will
> bypass the existing ownership and force to either the local Administrators
> group or admin user?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Don Jones
>
> Are servers are Windows 2000 Server with the exception the NT 4.0 PDC and
> BDC.
> On the 2000 Servers, we have the local policy set to add administrators
> group to the roaming profile.
>
>
>
> We are in the process of moving from Windows NT Domain to an Windows
> Server
> 2003 AD environment.

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