Changing file ownership in Windows 2000

[Shane]

How do you change ownership of a file in windows 2000
pro? We have set quota limits for groups with in our
business. When employee's transfer from dept. to dept. we
need to change ownership of these files since they are no
longer owners of these files or have permissions to these
drive shares.
Another senerio is when we restore files from a file
server they change to administrative ownership.
Please provide any information that may be helpful in
changing file ownership.

Thank you,

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

How do you change ownership of a file in windows 2000
pro? We have set quota limits for groups with in our
business. When employee's transfer from dept. to dept. we
need to change ownership of these files since they are no
longer owners of these files or have permissions to these
drive shares.
Another senerio is when we restore files from a file
server they change to administrative ownership.
Please provide any information that may be helpful in
changing file ownership.

Hi

SubInACL in the Win2k Resource kit is able to do this:

subinacl /noverbose /file \\server\share\dir /setowner=whoever
subinacl /noverbose /subdirectories \\server\share\dir\* /setowner=whoever


If you don't have the Win2k RK, the SubInACL.exe in the Windows Server 2003 RK
(free) will maybe work on Win2k as well.

Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en

The kit will install on WinXP or later so you can get to Subinacl.exe. See the
Resource Kit help file for more about the system requirements for SubInACL.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

New bug fixed version of SubInACL is available for download...
(Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b