Re: file permission strangeness

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 06/07/05 

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 12:00:43 -0500

Run the command "net localgroup administrators" to see if the local
administrators group membership is what you expect and verify that you are
indeed logged on as the local administrator and not a decoy account renamed
administrator and also make sure that you are not a member of a group that
has deny permissions to that folder being sure to also check advanced
permissions. Try running Check Disk on that computer in case there is some
sort of problem with corruption of the disk. See if you have the same
problem to the d:\root folder. What you describe can happen with domain
accounts if there is a problem with the servers secure channel or domain
computer account but if that is the case the local administrator account
"should" work. Run the support tool netdiag on that server while logged on
as a domain account to see if any pertinent problems are reported such as
dns, dc discovery, or trust/secure channel.. --- Steve

"frank" <somewhere@rainbow.net> wrote in message
news:UWjpe.5$Bt1.185@news-west.eli.net...
> On a windows 2000/sp4 server I am experiencing the following inexplicable
> behavior:
>
> The local Administrators group has the following members: administrator,
> xdom\domain admins, xdom\admin, ydom\domain admins.
>
> d:\ (root folder) owner is Administrators, Everyone has full control.
> d:\data folder Everyone has full control.
>
> Logged into the server console as administrator, clicking the 'security'
> tab on explorer properties for the d:\data folder displays 'You only have
> permission to view the current security information on data.' and I cannot
> take ownership (although owner is displayed as 'administrators')?!? And I
> cannot write files to this folder.
>
> I get the same blockage logged into the console as the local administrator
> and domain admin accounts. I tried removing and re-adding the domain
> admin account to the local 'administrators' group, but no change. What is
> causing this behavior?
>
> -Frank Brown
> http://www.inwa.net/~frog/
>

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