Taking ownership of files

[ddrueding]

There are a few files in a folder on our file server that I can't do anything with. I'm logged in as Domain Admin (and local machine admin), and it won't let me even view the security tab of the files. If I try to change the ownership of the entire folder, including it's contents, it gives me an "access denied" error. I can't even view the current ownership.

Server 2003. Help?

 

[BingBangBop]

Can you read them? If so, copy/move the files to a FAT drive. Then delete the originals. Now copy the copy's back and you should be able to do anything you want to the files.

I've also used backup and restore (to a different drive) to strip the security info from files before.

 

[ddrueding]

All I want to do is delete them. Move, cut/paste, delete, none of that works.

 

[BingBangBop]

If you can't take ownership and can't delete but need to, then the best I've got is backup, format, restore (without those files).

 

[BingBangBop]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320081

 

[Stereodude]

Can you boot to something like a Linux Live CD and delete them in Linux?

It seems like Linux wouldn't care about file permissions.

 

[Sol]

Sounds like the file's trashed... Have you tried something like killbox?

 

[ddrueding]

Killbox says "the file seems not to exist"

 

[Stereodude]

Sounds like it's scandisk / checkdisk time.

 

[ddrueding]

...on a 6TB volume with a hundred concurrent users. Guess what I'm doing tonight...

 

[Stereodude]

...on a 6TB volume with a hundred concurrent users. Guess what I'm doing tonight...

Not getting much sleep? :rofl:

 

[ddrueding]

Could be worse, I suppose. Last night I was shoveling broken concrete into a trailer, in the rain, until midnight.

 

[LunarMist]

You have to be there in person for a restore?

 

[ddrueding]

I get nervous dealing with the really critical machines remotely. I am not the first person there in the morning, and now that we've moved it is a considerable drive to the office, so getting it wrong can be a bad thing.

 

[blakerwry]

I've used a few command line tools in the past to script ownership changes... basically a windows version of chown. something like these would probably work:
http://peter.verhas.com/progs/c/nt/pvt/index.html
http://peter.verhas.com/progs/c/nt/owner/
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/chown/readme.html