Re: Unable to display current owner

From: Don Jones (DonJones_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/01/05

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    Steve,

    Thanks for the reply, I'll give it a try.

    Don Jones

    "Steven L Umbach" wrote:

    > 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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