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JohnyV
Asked: 2010-08-13 17:33:17 +0800 CST

User's home drive permissions don't contain system or administrators on Windows Server 2008 R2

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I have a user whose home drive has only that user in the permissions. No administrators, etc.

I have tried to take ownership as a local administrator however I cant seem to apply settings to the child objects -- it still gives me a permission denied error.

I know there are some handy CLI utils that can redo permissions. Any ideas? Or even a way to do it through Windows?

The file server is a 2008 R2 server.

windows permissions file-server home-drive windows-server-2008-r2

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can do this from the GUI. You need to take ownership of the folder and subfolders (done on the "Ownership" tab of the "Advanced" security properties). Once you've done that, you can alter the permissions to your heart's content.

    If you want to do it via CLI, look at this answer for a small example script.

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  2. FILEACL is a utility worth checking. It will let you look at inheritance, etc.

    You can get it here: http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.asp

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