Profile Folders

[Guest]

I have set up user accounts for students and teachers on a window 2000
server. I type in their information and set a path for the profile. I
thought that if you set that path I could get in as an administrator to the
profile folders to see what students are storing on their desktops. when I
try it gives me an file not accessible error. The folders are under a shared
folder. I've tried going in and giving administrative ownership to the
folder, then giving the students full control, but when I do that the
students get a roaming profile error. Is there anything I can do to fix
this.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Unfortunately the Group Policy setting to fix that does not work on Windows
2000. There are tools such as fileacl that should allow you to add your user
account or administrators group to the permissions list without taking
ownership. I am not sure if cacls or xcacls.vbs will let you do that but you
could try. See the links below for fileacl and xcacls.vbs. Fileacl has a
/force option. Be VERY careful that your are editing existing permissions
[ /e for cacls and xcacls.vbs] and not replacing them or you could have a
real mess on your hands. If possible do an image backup of the server first
or at the very least try these very powerful utilities on a test computer
first. You could also try cacls as in CACLS c:\parentfolder /E /T /C /G
"administrators":F . Cacls would already be on the computer. --- Steve


http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=825751 --- xcacls.vbs