Folder ownership/permissions

[Peter]

<from an earlier post that is no longer getting replies,
so i reposted my questino:>


Okay, I tried those things and still have problems. This
one really is confusing me, here is where I'm at:

On two different folders, in the D: drive, with identical
settings:

Owner is set to Administrators
As for permissions:
Administrators - Full control, not inherited
Everyone - Full control, except take ownership -inherited
from D:
MyUsername(also an admin) - Full control, except take
ownership - inherited from D:

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both these folders have identical settings, yet i can
access D:\Folder1, but NOT D:\Folder2. EVERY setting is
the same. what gives?

Is there any way to just erase all ownership and
permissions and just have everything accessible to
everyone,even with me being the only user on this
machine?!?

Thanks guys,
Pete

-----Original Message-----
On the Security Tab, click Advanced, then the Owner

Tab. In the Change Owner to list, select your username,
or Administrators if you prefer. Check the box for
Replace owner on subcontainers and objects and click
Apply.

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[Roger Abell]

Have you mentioned every ACL on those folders, or
only those that you see as relevant? Also, have you
been using the Advanced button, since some grants
and/or denies do not show up in the generic view.

You could start / run cmd to get a cmd prompt
and then issue
cacls "D:\Folder1" > c:\folder1.txt
cacls "D:\Folder2" > c:\folder2.txt
to get two files that state the complete NTFS settings
on these folders. I suspect there is more in the NTFS
settings than you have mentioned.

To reset the permissions try
cacls "D:\Folder1" /t /g administrators:f
cacls "D:\Folder1" /e /t /g users:c

This will result in Administrators having Full Control
and Users members (limited accounts) having Change
and there will be no other settings in the NTFS permissions
after these are used.

 

[Guest]

Using your adminsitrator acct - you will need to go administrative tools and choose Local Security Policy. Under Security Settings click on the + next to Local Policies and then the + next to User Rights Assignments. On the right panel use the scroll bar and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Double click on Take ownership of files or other objects. Once the new screens pop ups. Then click on add user or group and add the new user their. This should solve the problem