Missing Root folder permissions

[iwebster]

An odd one here!

I have just moved several XP Pro machines from one domain to another and in doing so I was left with several permssion entries on folders just showing the SID from a previous domain user.

Upon trying to delete this permission Windows says that the permission is inherited from the root folder C: but looking at the permissions for C: there is no such entry?

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[bcastner]

Indeed, odd.

Could you describe how you "unjoined" the original Domain, and then joined the new?

This is not something that XP handles very gracefully. I have done the intermediate step of:

. Change from Domain to Workgroup, with the workgroup name identical to the old Domain;
. Resolve issues;
. Transition from Workgroup to new Workgroup with the name the new Domain;
. Resolve issues.
. Change from workgroup to new Domain.

As a practical matter I make a backup of the user profiles and re-image the machines or do a clean install. But the odd four-part dance from domain to workgroup to new workgroup to new domain has worked for me.

Bill