Unable to take ownership of directory

[Joe Grover]

I'm not sure what happened, but one of my techs was assigning permissions to
a folder created by a user, and now we are locked out of it. The Security
tab is not available under any logon. I have tried the following:

- Tried using CACLS.EXE to assign a user Full Control (Access Denied)
- Tried using XCACLS.EXE to assign ownership priviliges to folder (xcacls
foldername /G administrator:O, gives Access is Denied)
- Tried using TAKEOWN.EXE to take ownership (takeown foldername, get "Unable
to assign Administrator as owner, Log on as Administrator and try again"
though am logged in as local server account named Administrator)

Kind of at my wit's end here. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.


Joe

 

[John John]

A long shot but try it with subinacl.

John

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Even if an administrator has not permissions he should be able to take
ownership via Explorer to access the folder properties for security. If that
does not work for you for some reason take a look at the free utility
fileacl that is also shown on the Microsoft website as it has an option to
force ownership. If you still have problems check the user rights on that
computer via secpol.msc to make sure that administrators have the user right
to take ownership. I believe xcacls.vbs will also let you take ownsership.

Steve

http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl29.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825751