Re: Access denied for Administrator

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:30:32 -0700

Logon as local administrator and take ownership. 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"MHTBMatt" wrote:
|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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