File permission and ownership

[Fredly]

Help.

I had to lock down a bunch of files on an XP workstation yesterday. It went
ok but several of the files are now giving access denied messages and
complaining about ownership. I believe taking ownership will fix the
problem. I can't do one at a time. There are hundreds. I found reference
to a method:

subinacl /subdirectories <FolderPath>\*.* /setowner=<DomainName\UserName>

Can I replace DomainName with Computer name? If I run this will it blow up
all of the permissions I set yesterday? Will I need to reset them?

I will do some testing, I'm just looking for some input.

If it does, here's another question. If I take a folder that has standard
xp permissions, everyone, system, etc... and go to
security->advanced->uncheck Inherit from the parent... and then add the new
permissions I am looking for, do I need to go back and check "replace
permission entries on all child objects..."

Thanks in advance for your time.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I would think that computer name would work but to be sure test out first
ideally on a test computer. There is a free utility called fileacl that also
makes it easy to manage ownership. Whatever you do be sure to make backups
first. You may find fileacl can do all what you need to configure your files
as it is extremely flexible and has options to do inherited
rmissions. --- Steve

http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl