Access denied for Administrator

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From: MHTBMatt (MHTBMatt_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:21:04 -0800

I have a Windows 2000 Standard server with SP4 that is a member server of a
SBS 2003 domain. I have a data directory that nobody including the domain
administrator has access to. I get access denied when trying to change/delete
this folder or any of its child folders and files using the domain
administrator account.

Also, the domain administrator can not change the access rights and only
has read permission when trying to change the access rights.

I have no idea how this happened. Is there a way to reset access rights to a
default setting? I was able to copy the contents of the folder to a new
folder and the new folder works corectly for the access settings. I would
just like to delete the folder that gives me the error.

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