Re: file permission strangeness

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 06/08/05


Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:25:04 -0500

Hi Frank.

Glad you got it sorted out and thanks for reporting back what the problem
was. Don't know if I have ever heard about that one before. --- Steve

"frank" <somewhere@rainbow.net> wrote in message
news:bgEpe.8$Bt1.204@news-west.eli.net...
> OK the problem turned out to be caused by the folder being held open by a
> service which was blocking access. Stopping the service freed up access.
> The permissions were actually fine. -Frank
>
> "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@nospam-comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uFhZZI4aFHA.2756@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Run the command "net localgroup administrators" to see if the local
>> administrators group membership is what you expect and verify that you
>> are indeed logged on as the local administrator and not a decoy account
>> renamed administrator and also make sure that you are not a member of a
>> group that has deny permissions to that folder being sure to also check
>> advanced permissions. Try running Check Disk on that computer in case
>> there is some sort of problem with corruption of the disk. See if you
>> have the same problem to the d:\root folder. What you describe can happen
>> with domain accounts if there is a problem with the servers secure
>> channel or domain computer account but if that is the case the local
>> administrator account "should" work. Run the support tool netdiag on
>> that server while logged on as a domain account to see if any pertinent
>> problems are reported such as dns, dc discovery, or trust/secure
>> channel.. --- Steve
>>
>>
>> "frank" <somewhere@rainbow.net> wrote in message
>> news:UWjpe.5$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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