Re: "Owner" : Question rephrased: Help
From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 07/06/03
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:56:54 -0700
Hey George,
I believe Ron has explained the OEM defined Owner account.
You may also be interested in knowing that these profile folders
in Documents and Settings are special. For on thing, if you rename
an account then its profile folder will always retain the name it had
when it was first created (when that account was first used to log in).
If you fiddle with it, the OS will likely see it as corrupt and unusable
and create a new one.
If your OEM version placed much special config into the Owner
profile, then it is likely that it will do the same in any new profile
(this is usually done by modifying the Default User profile which
is copied in the process of creating a new user profile).
So, if you define a new admin account and use it, it is very likely
that there is nothing available to the Owner account that is not
also available via the new account's profile.
When you in the past have had difficulty accessing profile areas
when a disk is hung on a different system those areas where you
were denied had likely been "made private". Exerciseing the option
to make a profile private removes grants to the Administrators group
from the NTFS permissions of the profile. So, when hung on a
different system you can go wherever Administrators have a grant
of NTFS permissions, but get denied where they do not.
This is easily fixed by taking ownership of the denied areas, and
when prompted agreeing to let it set adequate permissions.
Take Ownership see Help and Support, or
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421
"George" <comscene@pacific.net> wrote in message
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> In my earlier messages, I wrote about reassigning
> ownership to different profiles. To the two individuals
> who replied, thank you very much for the information,
> both of your entries taught me.
>
> However, my question was not properly phrased, and
> perhaps someone will have an answer if I can get my
> question right - this is my challenge.
>
> Here is my question rephrased:
>
> When you set up XP Home or Pro, the first profile you
> name (no matter what you name it while running the OS
> setup) will be designated "Owner" when viewed under
> Documents and Settings. If you log in as any other
> profile than the one first established, you will still
> see there is a "Owner" directory in the Documents and
> Settings folder.
>
> As it turns out, if this PC ever crashes, the contents in
> the "Owner" folder/directory becomes unavailable if you
> set up the drive as a slave to a different drive for
> recovery purposes, while content in all of the other
> profiles is more easily accessible. I have suffered
> through this with several XP Home/Pro installations.
>
> My question is whether the "Owner" profile may be
> reassigned to a profile created after the first profile
> is established. Otherwise, I will move all the data
> content initially established through the Owner profile
> to a later established profile.
>
> A follow on question is to learn more about the nature of
> the "Owner" profile: is it not the default Administrator
> profile you would see from setting up an NT workstation?
> That there must be an owner to a PC with certain rights
> and privileges? Or something like that?
>
> Thank you again for all help and clarification.
>
> -George
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