Re: Administrator has no right to change the security permission

From: Jud (Jud_at_work.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:13:11 GMT

"hon123456" <peterhon321@yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message
news:34387e87.0501270101.5c902b5f@posting.google.com...
> Dear all,
>
> I got a folder that originally is under full control of everyone,
> I removed the Everyone group and try to add three users to take full
> control of
> the folder but I forget to add the administrator account to have full
> control of this folder. Now when I login as administrator, the server
> only allow administrator to View the security permission of this
> folder. the administrator
> now have no right to change the security permission. How can I get
> back the
> full control of this folder for administrator?
>
> Please help. and thanks.

Go into properties\Security\ advanced \owner and take ownership, even though
you have removed the admin account you should still be
able to take ownership.

Jud

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