Inherable Permisions - Server 2003

[emptyshadow]

Hi Everyone

I am having a big problem with one of my servers.
It is a file server with thousands of folders.

One of the technicians removed the security rights and replaced it to all the subfolders and files on on of the folders.

Unfortunately when I try to take ownership it only works for the current folder, when I try to replace owners on all subfolders I get access Denied.

I then try to replace the security rights for current folder and replace all sub folders and files. Still Access Denied

I then go into the folder which I took ownership off and now I can take ownership of the next folder/file.

The problem is however that I am not able to force the security or owner rights through all folders and files. On this specific folder there is more than 900 folders with 12000 files and I really dont see the reason why I should take ownership 12900 times

There should be a second way to do it. Maby a CMD command?

Please assist.

 

[Random717]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/set...etacl-cmdline-2.0.3.0-binary-x86.zip/download

command to use:
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SetACL.exe -on c:\folder -ot file -actn setowner -ownr "n:domain\user" -rec cont_obj
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'-on' is the folder with all the sub directories
'-ownr' is the user that takes ownership
'-rec cont_obj' means recurse through files and folders

 

[Conradl]

Have you logged in using the domain admin account, or even a local admin account?? I have a problem sometimes with profiles, where I have to take ownership, and then replace permissions, alternating as I go down the directory tree, but still from the top folder (if that makes sense). The command line may give errors too.

Can you not restore permissions from a backup??

 

[emptyshadow]

Thanks Random717.

It worked 100%. I will keep this app for years to come.