Re: you need permission to perform this action

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Meinholf,

That was it! I took ownership and set the permissions for the individual
files, and I was able to do my copying. Unfortunately, I still have the
Access problem, but that's a topic for a different newsgroup!

Thanks again for your help and patience!

Keith


"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Keith,

I would not take ownership over the complete folders and also not configure
the global permissions for administrators.

Use only the needed files as described earlier and use the Administrator
account. Inheritance is not working on the system32 folder, because some
folder permissions are changed by design, that's the reason you see the special
settings

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Meinholf,

Thanks again for working with me on this.

I did have the Administrator take ownership of the system32 folder,
and then assigned full control permissions to the Administrators
group. There is something called special permissions that is grayed
out that I was unable to manipulate. The original owner was
TrustedInstaller, and it was assigned "special" permission. Do you
have any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Keith

"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Keith,

The administrator should be able to take ownership of files, did it
myself some time ago and worked. After taking ownership ther
permissions has to be configured on the file, so 2 steps are needed.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hi Meinolf,

Thank you so much for the response.

I tried logging in as the Administrator, but, unfortunately, I got
the same result. Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks,

Keith

"Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]" wrote:

Hello Keith,

Use the "administrator" account for that action, all other
administrative accounts are having UAC in front of there work.

Best regards

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I am trying to update some files in the C:\Windows\System32 folder
on a Windows Server 2008 acting as a Terminal Server. When I try
to copy the files in and overwrite what is already there, I get
the following message:

"you need permission to perform this action"

I tried taking ownership of the folder and changing the
permissions to full for administrators, but I continue to get the
same error message. I realize that I'm trying to do something that
I probably shouldn't do, and Windows is "protecting" me from this.

My problem is that an installation of MS Access 2003 Runtime
screwed up the OLE automation files for Office 2000(I think), and
I'd like to return them to their previous state. Since
uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2000 didn't do anything, I'm
hoping that I can manually correct this.

Does anyone know how I can copy updated files into the System32
folder?

Thanks,

Keith




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