We are using Windows 2003 as a file server. We turned on Disk Quota to limit users on space usage, especially in their home folder. We also have a few "shared" folders where users can save files that other users need to access. For these shared folders, I changed the ownership on all the files to an Administrator account because we don't want this to count against the user. But what I have noticed is that when a user modifies a file that is in these shared folders, the ownership is changed from the Administrator to the user who modified the document. Is there a why to set these files within these shared folders to NOT change the ownership of any files?
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WK2003 - Disk Quota & File Ownership
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robbydillard
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We have a similar problem in that we were a little sloppy in robocopying user directories over from 2k to 2k3. They retained their permissions but the administrators group now owns all the files and folders for some 2000+ users and our disk quota therefore does not function properly. Does anybody know of a way to revert ownership back to the creator via a script or somthing.
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Robby
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Robby
Everytime a user adds or changes a file in this folder they will take ownership of said file.
On the main folder set the permissions of the folder to deny Take Ownership rights under the advanced security settings. You may need to experiment to ensure they are still able to add, modify, delete files.
On the main folder set the permissions of the folder to deny Take Ownership rights under the advanced security settings. You may need to experiment to ensure they are still able to add, modify, delete files.
bofhrevenge2
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I could be wrong here and I’m not at work to test but try setting the share permissions to 'change' instead of full control I think the will prevent users from altering permissions or taking ownership of files (weather they intend to or not).
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