Re: Unable to take ownership

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 10/17/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:53:16 -0500

When you take ownership at the parent folder be sure to select the option to
replace owner on subcontainers and objects also. If you still are having
problems try logging onto the server as a local administrator to try and
also check membership of the local administrators group to make sure that
the domain admins group is a member which it would be by default but could
have been removed. I don't recommend logging onto a domain computer as a
domain administrator however unless it is known to be secure - no malware,
malicious scripts, or keyboard loggers to try and capture your password or
do damage with the powers of a domain administrator account.

If you still have problems try running ChechDisk on the server and consider
using a command line tool like fileacl that has a /force switch to take
ownership and refer to the second link below that explains how to remove
difficult files that may have names that are illegal in Windows. --- Steve

http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl and syntax
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320081

"Dave Slinn" <CougarDave@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
news:exgdF5p0FHA.2792@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>I am having trouble deleting some old files and folders from some shared
>network storage folders. I get an Access denied error message when
>attempting to view the contents of certain folders, and even if I try to
>take ownership of them (as the Domain Administrator), I get an error
>saying, "An error occurred applying security information. (folder).
>Access is denied.".
>
> If the admin isn't able to take ownership, and the owner of the folder is
> an account for a user that no longer exists at the company (the account
> still exists in Active Directory, but it has been disabled), how can I
> delete these folders (and all their contents)?
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Explorer owners column shows SID instead of name
    ... Right click on the root folder of the drive and do the usual to get to the Security tab and the option to take ownership of the files and select to "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects". ... If you have several valid owners on files on the drive and if you only want to replace the owner on the specific SID use the SubInAcl tool, ... But I also see files and folders all over the machine for which the displayed user is somebody's SID instead of the friendly name. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: revoke change permissions?
    ... ownership of all folders and files to a certain user in the Owner tab of the ... >> It sounds like you are correct in setting up Deny to Change Permissions ... the Domain Local group has been assigned the Owner role. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.security)
  • Re: Old Hard Drive has restricted files
    ... I tried to take ownership over the folders but it will not work. ... It's extremely faster than the XP search utility. ... you're looking at data recovery services. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Folder Access
    ... Open Windows Explorer, and then locate the file or folder you want to take ... ownership of. ... In the Change owner to box, ... > trying to open these folders (just used for storing data ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: XP Folder Ownership Problems, Permissions, Inheritances
    ... I can change the ownership of all my root folders to "Administrators". ... " Permissions", "Inheritances", Users can have certain levels of security ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)