I have this same problem on Win 2000 Pro. I am running Win2k Pro on a
stand-alone machine. It is not networked and only has a single user (me), so
I log-on as Administrator all the time. I changed the name of my
Administrator account recently - tinkering. After I changed it and logged in
with the new administrator name, I couldn't run anything: not from a desktop
icon or the start menu. Everything I tried gave this error message: "Access
to the specified device, path, or file is denied". It did not matter what
drive or directory the program was in - nothing worked. So I thought: this
is a permissions problem, right?
So I went into safe mode, and checked the permissions for the account: Full
Control. However, the owner of all directories was "Administrator" not the
"new name". I changed the owner of the root directory and all subdirectories
and files to the "new name".
That appeared to fix it for several days. But then, I removed an
application program that required a restart to complete. After the reboot, I
was locked out again. Nothing seems to have changed: "new name" still owned
the directories and has Full Control permissions. I tried adding "new name"
to the Group, Administrators, and then making Administrators the owner of all
files and directories. Administrators has Full Control permissions. That
worked until the next reboot.
The problem always occurs after a reboot. Left-clicks will not work, but I
can do anything available from right-click. Re-assigning permissions to all
files on the drive from safe mode (which takes 3 hours on my machine), then
rebooting, fixes the problem until the next reboot. Cannot find anything in
security settings in MMC that helps.
I'm confused!
Anthony Yates said:
You will get that message. Then go to Ownership and take ownership. Then
change the permissions. Happens all the time on Roaming Profile folders.
Anthony
MHTB Matt said:
I tried that and still get the same result. When I click the Security tab in
the Properties window for that folder(named 2004) I get the following message:
"You only have permission to view the security information for 2004"
Thanks for the reply though!
Dave Patrick said:
Logon as local administrator and take ownership.
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|I have a Windows 2000 Standard server with SP4 that is a member server of a
| SBS 2003 domain. I have a data directory that nobody including the domain
| administrator has access to. I get access denied when trying to
change/delete
| this folder or any of its child folders and files using the domain
| administrator account.
|
| Also, the domain administrator can not change the access rights and only
| has read permission when trying to change the access rights.
|
| I have no idea how this happened. Is there a way to reset access rights to
a
| default setting? I was able to copy the contents of the folder to a new
| folder and the new folder works corectly for the access settings. I would
| just like to delete the folder that gives me the error.
|
