Re: "Access Denied" Problem

From: Alan Chwick (Alan.Chwick_at_TCMIntegratedSyetms.com)
Date: 06/02/05


Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:55:39 -0400

Steven L Umbach wrote:
> Try taking ownership first as administrator. When you do such be sure to
> select the option to "replace owner on subcontainer and objects". I also
> like the free tool fileacl that can change permissions if you are an
> administrator even if you are not the owner with the /force switch. If EFS
> encryption is involved and something happened to the user's EFS private key
> you may not be able to restore access to the files unless you restore his
> private key from a backup of a .pfx file or use the Recovery Agent. The
> command cipher will show if files are encrypted. I hope the users all have
> separate user accounts as sharing a user account is not a security best
> practice.--- Steve
>
> http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl
>
>
> "Alan Chwick" <Alan.Chwick@TCMIntegratedSyetms.com> wrote in message
> news:uaUw$OjZFHA.1384@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>>I am the Admin of a small network. On one of our machines, which is shared
>>by 3-Users, one of them has lost their rights to their "My Documents." I,
>>as the Admin, also, can not access this directory.
>>
>>I tried logging in as the Administrator and tried executing XCACLS with
>>the following options:
>>XCACLS "My Documents" /c /g administrator:rcfpoxewd:rcfpoxewd
>>
>>I then rebooted, just to be on the safe side.
>>
>>Logged in as the Admin and still could not access this directory.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Alan
>
>
>
Thanks.

Thing where more missed up then normal. I took ownership first, then
changed to ownership to the user. All seemed OK, but only some of the
sub-directories got the new owner.

I had to hand do the ones that didn't change. All is AOK now.

I think I'll go back to NOVELL, as an MS network is to complicated.

Alan



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