NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM replaces all valid share file owners.

From: Gibson, Andy (agibson_at_nova.org)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:12:31 -0400

I am looking for suggestions in identifying the source of what is clobbering
a real owner domain\user for all files on a windows\nt server share. Any
file owner information appears valid for a period of time and then gets
replaced by NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. There are just over 100 users storing data
on the share and as the end user Watchdog watching things for the project,
when I have lost real file owner users, it get real tough to administration
something with multi-thousand files.

Out NT support admin has had no luck and is beginning to escalate up the
assistance chain so I thought I would try this approach. Lost of owner
information appears often after an offline maintance activity of the share
but I have also seen them disappear outside of know offline maintance. In
general once the real owner gets replaced, it remains at NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
but in one case I will sware the real owner became visible again for a day
or so and then disappeared again. No visible procedures, programs, actions
are suspect yet. Stepping up to Windows/2000 or 2003 is not yet an option.
It is coming.

Pointers, suggestions, other forums to ask in? Has anyone seen this before?
I am running out of ideas and I would like to either recover my real file
owners or show valid file owners from here forward without loosing them 2 or
3 times a month.

Andy

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