Re: Administrator unable to access certain items

From: Kent W. England [MVP] (kwe@mvps.org)
Date: 10/31/02 

From: "Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:58:51 -0800

An idea that might help is that it is entirely possible for an admin
account to be denied access to a resource. However, the admin can always
"take ownership" of the resource and grant herself any permission
desired.

There is a folder somewhere that you need to take ownership of and fix
the permissions (and then perhaps give ownership back). 

--
Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
(Please respond only in the newsgroup)
Sprint <b@b.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Looking for Ideas. I am getting Access Denied in what looks like only
> 3 areas.
> Application Events Viewer
> System Events Viewer
> Note: the Security Events Viewer shows no events
>
> Of more concern I cannot access the IIS via the MMC. I get the
> following error 'You have been denied access to this machine'.
>
> Now before we go on with the obvious I am in the administrators
> group. This is not part of a domain (Just a small test Lan with 3
> Workstations).
>
> Specs Windows XP SP1
> Using Wireless Network Card
>  attached is a small screen shot of my permissions
>
> Again also note I can add users, Delete users, install software,
> defrag Hard Drives - no security problems. Also if I log on using the
> 'Administrator Account' I get the same errors.  I guess the problem
> resides somewhere in some security setting just really baffled.   I'm
> almost thinking of re-ghosting the machine back to the original
> Windows 98 and reinstalling XP. This was working at one time. Since
> that time .Net has been installed - thats all I can think of unless
> while nosing around in different areas I screwed something up.
>
> Thanks Again,
> Bruce Hafner

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