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change file/folder ownership
Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 12:22 am
Posted by Aun (112 messages posted)

I have a storage server on my domain running win 2003. Recently something went wrong 
and now i cant access any files or folders in one of its partitions. Everytime i 
try to open these files or folders i get an error "access denied". Somehow i dont 
have ownership of anything in this drive anymore. 

Is there any way i can take ownership of a whole folder including the subfolders 
and all the files within it without going through each file and manually doing it?

Ive been looking at the "chmod" command but cant understand how it works. Im logged 
in using the domain admin account so i have all the permissions necessary i guess. 
Can someone give me an example how ill go about using command? or is there another 
simple way?

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re: change file/folder ownership
Monday, December 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Posted by appleoddity (2369 messages posted)

Right-click folder -> properties -> security tab -> advanced -> owner tab -> replace owner on subcontainers.

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