Re: Access Denied after restore

From: Michael S. (user@#notme.com)
Date: 06/13/02 

From: "Michael S." <user@#notme.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:25:11 -0700

This sounds like a file ownership issue.
This is a file ownership issue related to NTFS. How you resolve it depends
upon which version of XP you are running.

Unfortunately, XP Home using NTFS is essentially hard wired for "Simple File
Sharing" at system level.

However, you can set XP Home permissions in Safe Mode. Reboot, and start
hitting F8, a menu should eventually appear and one of the
options is Safe Mode. Select it. Note, it will ask for the administrator's
password. This is not your administrator account, rather it is the
machine's administrator account for which users are asked to create a
password during setup.

If you created no such password, when requested, leave blank and press
enter.

Open Explorer, go to Tools and Folder Options, on the view tab, scroll to
the bottom of the list, if it shows "Enable Simple File Sharing" deselect it
and click apply and ok. If it shows nothing or won't let you make a change,
move on to the next step.

Navigate to the files, right click, select properties, go to the Security
tab, click advanced, go to the Owner tab and select the user that was logged
on when you were refused permission to access the files. Click apply and
ok. Close the properties box, reopen it, click add and type in the name of
the user you just enabled. If you wish to set ownership for everything in
the folder, at the bottom of the Owner tab is the following selection:
"Replace owner on subcontainers and objects," select it as well.

Once complete, you should be able to do what you wish with these files when
you log back on as that user. 

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows XP
Microsoft MVP Program:
 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;en-us;MVPINTRO
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Liis" <l_bryant@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e3f201c21272$306b3820$39ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA08...
> I should have added that all this happened while logged
> in as the administrator.
>
> Liis
>

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