Help on deleting directory without admin rights

[XIII]

Dear people,

some of my users decided to remove the administrator rights on 'his' map on one of our drive-mappings. Beside the administrator rights and privilages, he also removed his own rights.

The hole thing was my mistake in the first place; I should not give users the 'full permission' on his directory anyway.

Is there a way around this problem?

thx,

regards,

XIII

 

[Jpoandl]

Try to take ownership of the files first. Then give yourself admistrative rights on the files.

After this is complete, give the users Change NTFS rights or less.

A good tool to use for NTFS administration is CACLS. I believe this is a resource kit utility. It cmd based and give you a lot of flexibility in assigning/removing ownership and permissions.

Hope this helps.

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

 

[XIII]

thx for your help. Worked like a dream. After the ownership was taken, it seemed that the user deleted ALL the rights to the specific directory.

thx again,

cheers,

XIII