ownership and permissions

[trbleshooter]

If you are using a winxp machine as a fileserver and a win98 machine creates a file and saves it to the fileserver why can he still delete the file even though he has been denied delete permission on the advanced properties tab. Question being if you create the file are you auomatically the owner of that file and therefore have full contol of it? If so do you have to go in as admin on the fileserver and take ownership to deny this ability? Thanks in advance.

 

[wolluf]

Question being if you create the file are you auomatically the owner of that file and therefore have full contol of it?
Yes
If so do you have to go in as admin on the fileserver and take ownership to deny this ability?
Yes

 

[trbleshooter]

Thanks alot for the help. Is there any way to take ownership without having to manually do it for each file every user creates?

 

[wolluf]

If the files are all in same folder, you can take ownership of the folder, and have it replace ownerships on all subsidiaries (containers and objects). But after taking ownership, you'll still need to chnage the user concerned's permissions to deny delete access - just changing ownership doesn't do that.

 

[svnzealot]

I've taken over permission of the folders like you said but I can't copy and paste any o fthe files in the folder that I took permission of.

Can you help

 

[linney]

svnzealot,

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP (Q308421)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q308/4/21.asp

Follow the links at the bottom of that article too.




284995 - Error Message: Your Current Security Settings Prohibit Copying or Moving Files from This Zone

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;284995&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH