Re: W2K strange file permission problem

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:33:18 -0400

Probably you do not own the file. Your old domain user account owns it. If
you can access the file with an administrator account, you should be able to
take ownership. Then you can assign permissions to your new domain account.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Ofer E" <surprise_guy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:27cb7748.0410120837.55f78d30@posting.google.com...
> Hi Folks,
>
> Our Administrator moved everybody to a different domain.
>
> Now I can't open my old files for read/write.
>
> As strange as it may sound, I can assign me with any imaginable
> permission (since my account is an administrator).
>
> Neither me nor my admin has any clue as to the reason why the files
> won't open...
>
> The file belongs to me, and I've added it every possible permission on
> earth but to no avail. It's accesible to MYDOMAIN/Administrators
> MYLOCALPC/Administrators and actually I even added Everyone with full
> access, but it had no affect.
>
> The only significant detail is that the "allow" tab is greyed out (all
> operations are checked though) and I can't seem to find the reasoning
> for that. I mean, after all I own the file, right?
>
> Any Ideas are welcome...

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