Re: Why does S-1-5-21-23.......-2001 own my file?

From: Andrew Clarke (anclarke@calum.uwaterloo.ca)
Date: 01/25/03 

From: "Andrew Clarke" <anclarke@calum.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:34:51 -0800

Hi. Thanks for your response. The problem is that this option is greyed out.
This is what I was saying below about not being able to change them in
Properties->Security. These files are owned by these other owners, but even
when I supposedly make myself the owner again, the options are still all
greyed out.

And the thing is, I thought I HAD added my account to the other box. Oh
well. I guess I can always move the files to another computer and move them
back, but 20GB of files over 802.11b is a major pain in the ***...

Thanks!

P.S. Kent, sorry I meant to reply to the group, not send this to you via
email originally!

"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eodDYhBxCHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> Your suspicions may be correct. The account that owns your files is
> unknown to your XP installation. You need to read up on how to take
> ownership of files in Help and Support Center.
>
> In future, do a copy/paste instead of a move and your files will inherit
> their permissions instead of preserving them.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, MS MVP for Windows XP
> (Please respond only in the newsgroup)
>
>
> "Andrew Clarke" <anclarke@calum.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
> news:#uRPuT#wCHA.1656@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> > These users with really long numeric names have taken ownership of a
> > bunch
> > of my .mp3 files and I can't remove the permissions! Does anybody
> > know why
> > and how I can get rid of these permissions? I can't change them in
> > Properties->Security even though I'm an admin.
> >
> > They might have showed up when I tried backing them up onto a SAMBA
> > share
> > using SecondCopy. Not that that really helps me now...
>