Files with no permissions

[James Macnicol]

I got a wireless network card for my PC recently and then
discovered that my shares were visible to the "outside
world" so I was stuffing around with the "cacls" command
to try to restrict access to these (the wrong thing to do
I know now). Anyway, the result of this is that I have
some subdirectories now which have no permissions set at
all (i.e. typing "cacls <filename>" returns nothing), I
get "Access denied" if I try to do anything to them, even
when logged on as Administrator.

Is there anything I can do to recover from this without
re-installing? I can get (read-only) access to the files
by mounting the partition from Linux so I'm unlikely to
lose anything (although the Linux NTFS code is rather
dodgy) but given the amount of time I spent setting this
box up I'd really hate to have to start again.


Thanks.



James

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Regain ownership:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone