File Ownership

[Guest]

Hello All,

When I copy my image files over to a test drive and boot that test drive, go
through the FBA etc. Many files (some from the image, some of my own that I
leave on the test drive) are owned by a UID/GID unknown to the XPe OS, which
results in all
sorts of problems. I'm currently using the cygwin chown command to fix files
as needed.

What is the recommended way to fix the UID/GID for the files in the image?
Will
fbreseal take care of this for me?

David

 

[KM]

David,

You would probably better clean up the test drive before you deploy an XPe on it.

You can also "fix" the files by modifying access control lists for them. Use tools like "cacls.exe" to do that. Or Explorer if
included.

I am not sure about this but I think fbreseal and newsid would only change an old SID to a new SID for files on NTFS. They may not
fix your problem (I don't think they clean up ACLs). But you can easy give it a try.

 

[Guest]

Even files like boot.ini have unknown ownership. I'm just mounting the drive
on a
test machine, copying over the image files, and then booting the drive on the
target device. I figured the FBA would at least make sure the files in the
image
would have valid owners...

Thanks,

David

 

[KM]

David,

How do you copy all the file to the drive?
Don't use Explorer but rather tool like xcopy (don't use /O switch).
Before the copy format the drive (you can use Quick Format).

KM