Re: XP Folder Ownership Problems
From: Kent Peters (kent-peters@houston.rr.com)
Date: 06/06/02
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From: "Kent Peters" <kent-peters@houston.rr.com> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:57:19 -0700
Hi Kent, this is Kent. OK let's focus on the ownership
issue. I have 4 Users: Administrator, Kent, Natalia,
Jacqueline. The Administrator account is mine as is Kent,
both of which have Administrator privledges. Natalia and
Jacqueline are Users. I've figured out how to take
ownership. The problem is I don't know who the default
owners are supposed to be! Most of my root folders were
owned by Administrators, so I changed the ownership to
Kent. What are the default "out of the box" ownership
settings? I need to know this for the following folders:
Windows, Program Files, Documents and Settings, Documents
and Settings\Kent, Documents and Settings\Natalia,
Documents and Settings\Administrator, AND any old root
folder that was created from any install I have done such
as C:\Cyberpwr ?
My confusion lies in that my entire C:\drive is messed
up. Are you telling me to change the ownership of every
folder, subfolder, and file on my C:\ drive to Kent ?
Because I screwed all of them up. What would the default
ownership normally be for the above mentioned folders ?
>-----Original Message-----
>Taking ownership is the first step. You may need to add
permissions
>after taking ownership. However, the procedure you
describe was not what
>I recommended you to do. My recommendation is to do what
the Help and
>Support Center recommends by logging on to the
appropriate account,
>opening the security tab for the affected folder, and
taking ownership
>and changing permissions on the affected groups, or
adding groups to the
>permissions, which you know how to do.
>
>At this point, I need to see a cacls output for the
folder in question.
>
>--
>Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
>(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
>
>Subzero <subzeronyc@hotmail.com> posted the following:
>
>> From the looks of things a lot of us are having
problems taking
>> control of permissions for whatever reason (see below)
and there
>> seems to be no easy way to accomplish our goal. I
know all about
>> permissions and inheritances and none of that worked
for me even
>> though the problematic folder tells me I own it as an
administrator;
>> access is still denied. There has to be a way to
strip these folders
>> of these problematic rights. Any thoughts would be
greatly
>> appreciated
>>
>> Posted by Kent:
>> I encountered a similiar problem with XP Pro.
Everything
>> worked. Then I converted my primary drive to NTFS and
made My
>> Documents private. Then something happened and I
reformated and
>> reinstalled XP Pro on the NTFS drive. When I copied
back My Documents
>> from my backup drive, XP kept telling me Access
Denied, even though I
>> created them and I am an Administrator. Well, don't
follow my lead
>> because I temporarily made things even worse (but now
better).
>> First, I re-applied the Setup Security Template in MMC,
>> thinking it would reset all permissions. It did for all
>> the XP system type files but did not affect My
Documents.
>> So I copied the Setup Security Template and added
Admin permissions to
>> Documents And Settings. Then I was really hosed. All
my Office XP apps
>> stopped working telling me I wasn't a user and to
reinstall
>> (reinstalling didn't help).
>> Somehow there must be an easy way to Remove All
Security and
>> Permissions on all non-systems files but I haven't
found it. I am
>> sure the answer lies in applying the
>> correct security template. Odd thing, whenever I try to
>> change security by right mouse clicking on a folder or
>> file in Windows Explorer, the permissions and change
owner check
>> boxes are always grayed out. So, I have been unable to
assume
>> ownership. HELP !
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Taking ownership doesn't work. I have a similar
problem because I
>>> lost about 100 files of varying types by doing the
same thing. I
>>> can see them on the hard drive as the specific file
type (Word doc,
>>> Access db or whatever) but when I try to open them it
tells me I
>>> don't have permission even though I am the
administrator and only
>>> user of this computer. I'm always tweaking this
computer and
>>> normally backup the contents of My Docs by copying
the files to an
>>> additional hard drive but this time I was lazy and
copied the
>>> Documents and Settings folder before doing a complete
new
>>> installation of WinXP Pro because I'd replaced my CPU
and
>>> motherboard, and even though I always use the same l
{w ftF-P"g~O#- 'og-on, it
>>> doesn't allow me to gain control of files in this
folder.
>>>
>>> Thoughts appreciated on how to gain access to these
files because
>>> most of them are very important and I need access to
them.
>>>
>>> "David Yeshulas" <DYeshulas@attbi.com> wrote in
message
>>> news:eL
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