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I own a folder yet I have to manually acquire access to it
Hey guys, so I'm diagnosing a weird issue here. Someone requested that I make a video explaining how to adjust user permissions (at the file system level) for a network share on their 2016 server, which I have access to as an administrator and am currently remoted into. When I attempted to adjust permissions to deny a specific user during the course of making this tutorial, I received the following error:
This error occurred for many dozens of folders. Once I manually tried to enter the folder through File Explorer, I achieved access. Curiously, I ran a script under the SYSTEM user to determine the ownership of the folders in this directory and the vast majority of them came back as being owned by the "Administrators" group, which my currently logged in user is a part of.
I don't quite feel comfortable setting sweeping permissions on this network share for full control by "Everyone" (even though most of these folders already have that anyway), but it would take a very long time to acquire these permissions one by one. First of all, what exactly is going on here? Secondly, is there an easy way to solve it that doesn't involve mucking up the entire permissions hierarchy via inheritance?
Last edited by CursedLemon; 02 Aug 2022 at 09:16.