Re: Windows 2000 Quota Problem

From: Doug Baker (dbaker_at_wesleyan.spamkill.edu)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:29:12 -0500

On further research (in the last few minutes!) it might be just as easy to
use the /cleandeletedsidsfrom parameter. This will search for all deleted
sids and remove them.

Do a subinacl /help/full and see that paramater.. enjoy!
Doug

"Doug Baker" <dbaker@wesleyan.spamkill.edu> wrote in message
news:ukdC%23KrAEHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
> I am having a similar problem, but I think I found a workaround. I have a
> few abandoned/orphaned entries on a Dell NAS that is part of Active
> Directory. There are about 7 items in the "Quota Entries" list with just a
> SID, the account information is unavailable. Likely due to deleted
accounts.
>
> It seems that a quota entry will exist (and continue to exist) as long as
> there's a SID attached to the security for the file/directory, or just the
> ownership.
>
> In my case I had attempted to delete a quota entry. This launches a search
> for all files that are owned by the particular account. The first run
found
> a bunch. I took ownership (i.e. the domain admin) of the files, figuring
it
> would be fine to delete. Not the case - I got the same situation as you,
> where it wouldn't delete the quota entry but showed an empty list.
>
> Apparently a quota entry is valid if there is an account or SID attached
to
> either a security element or ownership of the file. So far (I've just
> started going through this) I noticed that the item at fault was the
> ownership of a folder.
>
> So I used subinacl (the latest one
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b&displaylang=en
> or http://tinyurl.com/rvfq if that link didn't work) to search and replace
> the problematic ownership. First I just did a search:
>
> subinacl /subdirectories *.*
> /findsid=S-1-2-34-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234 > sid1.txt
> (obviously put in a valid sid when you run it)
>
> Maybe you're lucky and the file(s) or folder(s) are in one place, and you
> can replace the SID.
> subinacl /subdirectories "e:\problem folder"
> /findsid=S-1-2-34-123456789-123456789-123456789-1234 /owner=domain\admin
>
> You can add a /testmode to that to make sure it will work before doing any
> changes. And you might have to tweak the folder specifier (add a \*.* if
you
> have files to change as well as a parent folder) on a second run of
> subinacl.
>
> Whew, after all that I was able to delete the quota entry.
>
> good luck!
> Doug

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