XP Mandatory Profiles (File Ownership)

[Guest]

I am attempting to deploy many standalone (workgroup !) XP machines and need
to fix the desktop to an agreed standard. I'm using XP Mandatory Profiles for
this. To do this, I copy a pre-prepared profile (NTUSER.MAN etc) onto the C:
drive during my scripted build of XP.

However, user logon fails because the profile folder ownership is wrong. If
I manually set the ownership, post-build, to the 'Administrators' group, the
mandatory profiles work just fine.

My questions are:

1/ How can I reset the ownership of the mandatory profile in the scripted
build? - I tried SUBINACL.EXE, but cannot get this to work.

2/ Is there a better way? (than using mandatory profiles)

Thanks, Peter Moreton

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

"The user profile path should point to a folder name and the path should
not include either the .usr or .man extension".

Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307800&sd=tech

Windows XP Professional How-to Resources
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/howto/winxphow.mspx

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| I am attempting to deploy many standalone (workgroup !) XP machines and need
| to fix the desktop to an agreed standard. I'm using XP Mandatory Profiles for
| this. To do this, I copy a pre-prepared profile (NTUSER.MAN etc) onto the C:
| drive during my scripted build of XP.
|
| However, user logon fails because the profile folder ownership is wrong. If
| I manually set the ownership, post-build, to the 'Administrators' group, the
| mandatory profiles work just fine.
|
| My questions are:
|
| 1/ How can I reset the ownership of the mandatory profile in the scripted
| build? - I tried SUBINACL.EXE, but cannot get this to work.
|
| 2/ Is there a better way? (than using mandatory profiles)
|
| Thanks, Peter Moreton

 

[Guest]

Carey, the problem is with file ownership, my question is "how do you reset
file ownership from the command line"