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Admin having problems changing file perm

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by mikeb

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Have switched over to W2k domain. I need to make a new group and restrict most of the domain to them. The domain is very small. When I select a drive and change the permissions, files/folders the the administrator is not the owner will not allow any access at all. Users can see folders/files with the new setting (as permissions allow) except for objects where the owner is not the administrator. If I make the administrator the owner of all objects and reapply the new permissions then alls well. Unfortunatly I can't (won't) do that on the main file server. Hmmmm!!! thanks Mike

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by erikdr

Still this (temporarily taking ownership) is the way to go in MS architecture,AFIK.
What we did (having the same problem in case of restores of user files from tape in NT) was taking ownership, setting the ACL's, and transferring the ownership backto the original user. The latter is NO standard Windows function, but a tool did the trick. If needed (ask by email) I can try and locate which tool was used, then you can see whether it works under W2K too...

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