Re: file permission strangeness

From: frank (somewhere_at_rainbow.net)
Date: 06/08/05 

Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:36:39 GMT

OK the problem turned out to be caused by the folder being held open by a
service which was blocking access. Stopping the service freed up access.
The permissions were actually fine. -Frank

"Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
news:uFhZZI4aFHA.2756@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> 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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