Re: file permission strangeness

From: Dan (Dan_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/16/05 

Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:19:03 -0700

Frank,

Could you provide a little more detail as to what service was "holding" a
folder open? I'm running into a similar problem, but I've never heard of a
service holding a folder open and then creating permissions issues.

Thanks

Dan

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> 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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