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 10:55:24 -0800

Please ignore this parent post - I put it in the wrong place!

"Andrew Clarke" <anclarke@calum.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
news:OnrYoBKxCHA.2584@TK2MSFTNGP11...
> 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...
> >
>
>