Domain Admin rights vs. password protected documents

[zaresa]

As the network admin I am a member of the Domain Admin group. I tried resetting NTFS permissions (removing a couple of users)on one of the shares on the file server.

While I am able to check the permissions on the subdirectory I am unable to replace the permissions on the subsequent files. In fact, I can't even check the permissions on the individual files.

The message I am getting is : "The following error occurred applying security inormation to %file name% Access is denied"

I suspect that the user may have password protected these documents. Would this override my rights as the Domain Admin?

 

[wolluf]

Are we talking about security or shares permissions? For security permissions, you'll need to take ownership of top level folder and all subsidiary levels before you can change permissions (assuming Administrator group doesn't own and doesn't have full contol access to the folder).

 

[djhawthorn]

To answer your question, no, password protected documents will not effect your Domain Admin rights to change the file-level permissions. You just won't have access to open the file in Word.

Chances are the user(s) have assigned Administrators the No Access permission - as wolluf suggests, take ownership of the file(s) then you should be able to change/reset those permissions. MCSE NT4/W2K