Ownership has nothing to do with permissions (other than the pseudo-objects SELF and CREATOR-OWNER).
Taking ownership just allows you to change the permissions. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms Hrm, if I use takeown for example and let it recursively process a whole drive, what should I expect to happen to perms after? If a file for example only has one user with perms, and is the owner what would happen? Appreciate all the help guys, I have 1.5 hours to get this solved and a backup started before my window disappears and I am the only guy fielding all the hysteria today! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms You have to be an owner of a file to change the permissions. Take ownership first. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms That's exactly what I was running and some files were not receiving the new user? I also encountered an error about incorrect acl size, so I ran the resize switch. I cant find much info on that issue. I wonder if there is some corruption on this volume, I am going to run a chkdisk. Thanks! jlc From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms Icacls e:\*.* /grant domain\backupuser:F /T /C Or Icacls e:\*.* /grant "domain\backup operators":F /T /C I would do the second as there might be user rights issues. After that, sounds like you might start with Dumpsec and see what's left from ownership issues: http://www.somarsoft.com/ -Bonnie From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms Yeah, he removed that from everythingJ Lol. There may still be some issues pertaining to ownership and me not being able to access the files to add the perm. How could I traverse the entire structure, and search for what few mods he made with ownership while removing all sec groups/users except those who use the data? What a mess. jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Modify NTFS Perms Just add the user to "Backup Operators". Done. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Modify NTFS Perms My last IT guy who just left last night made a mess of perms of a file server. I need to add without disturbing any existing perms a user for the backup to get access. I tried icacls on this win2k3r2 file server and I must be doing something wrong. Lets say I have a volume with ~750gig of data all with different acls. I wanted to add a user, Domain\BackupUser to all files, and set folders to propagate this added acl into anything new a users creates in the folders. Anyone got any pointes on this? I am about to pass out with stress being the only guy today with a busted SQL and Backup server J Thanks! jlc ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
