Re: Odd Permissions Whoops

From: Dana Brash (dbrash_at_Phongsaly.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:56:17 +0800

You need to take ownership of the folders first, then grant yourself
permissions.

Go into the security tab, advanced, ownership and grant your self ownership.
Make sure to push this down to all sublevels

then close and re-open the properties dialog and change the permissions on
the folder.

hth

=d=

"curtfenz" <curtfenz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1247ED4B-B141-4072-BAB2-27F33686FBD9@microsoft.com...
> I'm in the middle of bringing up a new 2003 in a one server 2000 server
> enviornment: I had just got both servers working, I copied all the old
> files
> to the new server and changed everyone's mappings to the new server.
>
> Monday I caught my receptionist with a new mapping to
> the old server! So I removed the mapping (whoops she still had a
> spread*** open...lost it) Then I went to the server room and
> pondered: How do I keep everyone off of the old stuff? So I went to
> security and deny'd "everyone" all seven or so rights. Then I found
> out about the lost file, and went to look for it as Administrator:
> Nope! I don't have permission to that folder. Don't have permission to
> change that folder. Can't figure out a way to replicate any permission
> to that folder. I tried to reverse the deny . . but it seems like I've
> got 30 folders and a bunch of files scattered around that I can't
> access. Granted, the new copies are safe on the new server, it is just
> the few files that people managed to place out there on Monday morning
> I can't get to.
>
> ActionPoint: How do I get to these Prohibited directories?