Unable to display current owner

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We are in the process of renaming users from a format of lastname first
initial to first.last format. In doing the renaming we are also renaming the
home directories and profiles and have encountered permission problems. On
some of the home directories and user profiles when checking permissions,
permissions are blank and the ownership shows unable to display current
owner. I can take ownership and the permissions come back.

We are looking for an automated means to redo the permissions to set the
owner back to administrator, so we can rename the folders. The tools
subinacl and xcacls do not seem to work on the folders where the owner can
not be displayed. If we use the Windows Explorer, ownership can be taken.
We tried to use takeown.exe which took ownership, but wiped out all other
permissions. Is there a version of takeown.exe or someother tool, that will
bypass the existing ownership and force to either the local Administrators
group or admin user?

Thanks.

Don Jones

Are servers are Windows 2000 Server with the exception the NT 4.0 PDC and BDC.
On the 2000 Servers, we have the local policy set to add administrators
group to the roaming profile.



We are in the process of moving from Windows NT Domain to an Windows Server
2003 AD environment.

 

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There is a tool called fileacl that may be able to help. It can assign
ownership and you may need to try the /force switch. Of course be sure to
test it out first. --- Steve

http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en

"Don Jones" <DonJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC8E7CAC-CDC6-4A2E-B8B9-E07C851D1D00@microsoft.com...
> We are in the process of renaming users from a format of lastname first
> initial to first.last format. In doing the renaming we are also renaming
> the
> home directories and profiles and have encountered permission problems.
> On
> some of the home directories and user profiles when checking permissions,
> permissions are blank and the ownership shows unable to display current
> owner. I can take ownership and the permissions come back.
>
> We are looking for an automated means to redo the permissions to set the
> owner back to administrator, so we can rename the folders. The tools
> subinacl and xcacls do not seem to work on the folders where the owner can
> not be displayed. If we use the Windows Explorer, ownership can be taken.
> We tried to use takeown.exe which took ownership, but wiped out all other
> permissions. Is there a version of takeown.exe or someother tool, that
> will
> bypass the existing ownership and force to either the local Administrators
> group or admin user?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Don Jones
>
> Are servers are Windows 2000 Server with the exception the NT 4.0 PDC and
> BDC.
> On the 2000 Servers, we have the local policy set to add administrators
> group to the roaming profile.
>
>
>
> We are in the process of moving from Windows NT Domain to an Windows
> Server
> 2003 AD environment.

 

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Steve,

Thanks for the reply, I'll give it a try.

Don Jones

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> There is a tool called fileacl that may be able to help. It can assign
> ownership and you may need to try the /force switch. Of course be sure to
> test it out first. --- Steve
>
> http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm --- fileacl
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=723f64ea-34f0-4e6d-9a72-004d35de4e64&displaylang=en
>
> "Don Jones" <DonJones@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BC8E7CAC-CDC6-4A2E-B8B9-E07C851D1D00@microsoft.com...
> > We are in the process of renaming users from a format of lastname first
> > initial to first.last format. In doing the renaming we are also renaming
> > the
> > home directories and profiles and have encountered permission problems.
> > On
> > some of the home directories and user profiles when checking permissions,
> > permissions are blank and the ownership shows unable to display current
> > owner. I can take ownership and the permissions come back.
> >
> > We are looking for an automated means to redo the permissions to set the
> > owner back to administrator, so we can rename the folders. The tools
> > subinacl and xcacls do not seem to work on the folders where the owner can
> > not be displayed. If we use the Windows Explorer, ownership can be taken.
> > We tried to use takeown.exe which took ownership, but wiped out all other
> > permissions. Is there a version of takeown.exe or someother tool, that
> > will
> > bypass the existing ownership and force to either the local Administrators
> > group or admin user?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Don Jones
> >
> > Are servers are Windows 2000 Server with the exception the NT 4.0 PDC and
> > BDC.
> > On the 2000 Servers, we have the local policy set to add administrators
> > group to the roaming profile.
> >
> >
> >
> > We are in the process of moving from Windows NT Domain to an Windows
> > Server
> > 2003 AD environment.
>
>
>