Server 2003 - Taking Ownership of Folder
Hi, There is a root folder that contains all the users Terminal Server Profiles. There are 3 domain administrators in the domain admins group, which is placed in the local administrator group on the file server. 2 of us can take ownership of the folders mentioned above, however one person cannot, they get a message saying you do not having permissions. Any idea's?
September 19th, 2011 6:54pm

Try; Explorer|"folder"|File|Properties|Security|Advanced|Effective Permissions Selecting the different users here should show you any differences. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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September 19th, 2011 7:26pm

Same for everyone, Windows cannot calculate the effective permissions. I got the admin who is having the problem, to take ownership by selecting the "administrators" group instead of the admin's own account, and that worked. Any reason why that would be different for this one admin, where as the rest of us can take ownership by selecting our own accounts?
September 19th, 2011 7:44pm

Might be they're members of other groups. When a user has contradictory permissions, Windows NT always uses the most restrictive permission. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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September 19th, 2011 7:50pm

I've doubled checked their admin account against mine, and it's definitely in the same groups. Fun, fun, fun! :-)
September 19th, 2011 8:08pm

These ones may help. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773004(WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb664922 Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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September 19th, 2011 8:22pm

Thanks will take a look.
September 19th, 2011 8:31pm

You're welcome. Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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September 19th, 2011 8:32pm

Hi, I would run the following commands to take owner of the file and assign Administrators group full control permissions. takeown /f {file location} cacls {file location} /G administrators:F What’s the result? For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft TechNet articles: Takeown http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753024(WS.10).aspx Cacls http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490872.aspx Regards, Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
September 21st, 2011 10:50am

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