Win2k question - orphaned user? from NT transfer

[Ash5000]

Ok here is my situation please someone advise

I have a windows 2000 Server.. folders were copied over with a utility i dont know what they (maybe admt) used but the old server was a windows NT server(b4 my working here). There is just one folder I cannot get access to even with Administrator rights.. I know that this user had a folder that only he could only access, and I know I have to loginto that folder with his username and password to be able to add a new user... but I cant login, I tried adding a user with exact same name and password from a windows NT client that connected to the old server but still wouldn't work.. In the permissions i do see a couple crypitic users that are look like "S-1-5-21-1547161642-920026266-1957994488-1023" So anyone know how to access this folder? Does that question make sense? is there a utility to decrypt what user are orphaned from the old system perhaps? Is there anyway to access the files?

Thank you in advance a million times over!

Ash

 

[crobin1]

That S number is the account security identifier (SID). The number is displayed when Windows can't resolve the SID to a username, either because the account is deleted (sounds like your issue) or belongs to a different domain which can't be contacted. Creating a new account, even with the same username, generates a new SID. Security is actually based on the SID and not the username, so that's why creating an account with the same username doesn't give it the old permissions.

You should be able to take ownership of the folders/files and then copy them. Go to the properties of the main folder, go to the Security tab, and then click the Advanced button. Click on the Owner tab. Select a name from the "Change owner to" list, check the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" box, then click OK. Answer Yes to any additional dialogs that appear. You may have to repeat this entire process a couple of times.