How do I take ownership of the 100,000 files?
I saw a couple persons very happy with
RealBlackStuff's advice above (
Sat 20 Dec 2003 11:30 GMT) that did solve their problem, a frequent one that also hurts me; but I failed to understand a part of it, thus failed to fix my problem, hence my report and question.
I have 3 PCs networked: a 2006 Laptop "
U223" (Win XP Pro); a 1999 laptop "
SAGER982" (W2KSP4); a 2003 desktop "
MerlinDesk" (W2KSP4). They are all in the same "Merlin" networkgroup, and connected with RJ45 cables to a Netgear
GS605 hub.
From one of the W2K, in Windows Explorer, "
Network Neighborhood > Entire Network > Microsoft Windows Network > Merlin > ...", I can access each other W2K with no problem. However when trying, from either W2K, to access the XPPro (U223), I can access
the PC ("
Microsoft Windows Network > Merlin > U223"), then when clicking its root folder "
C" I do see its contents, but when clicking any sub folder (like "
Documents and Settings" or "
Windows" or "
Download" or any other one), I get:
Code:
_________________________________________
| \\U223\C
|_________________________________________
|
| X \\U223\C\Download is not accessible.
|
| Access is denied.
|
| | OK |
|_________________________________________
From the XPPro I have full access to the 1999 W2K, but I had no access to the 2003 W2K ("MerlinDesk").
Then I made sure:
- each drive of each P C is full shared (including adding a New Share with Full control to Everyone, see "Default administrative shares are created..." in The Mole #16, 30 Aug 1999),
- NetBIOS over TCP/IP is turned on (enabled),
- and on each PC, the Computer Browser service is started and turned on.
Then I installed
NetBEUI on U223 (
KB 301041: How to install NetBEUI on Windows XP) and I rebooted, which gave me full access to the 2 W2K. But from any of these W2K, I still can access nothing on U223 further than the root folder.
This is where I tried
RealBlackStuff's advice. After checking the "
Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects" box, clicking "
OK" opened a "
Security" window with "
Taking ownership of: ..." parsing objects for 1 or 2 minutes; then appeared a window with a lengthy advice where I duly clicked "
Yes", which opened the same (or similar) "
Security" window with "
Taking ownership of: ..." again parsing objects (apparently the same ones: the folders in my C: disk), but this time for ~15 minutes.
Then the next thing to do was:
RealBlackStuff said:
For taking ownership of files, rightclick them, Security tab, Advanced, Owner tab...
Here I don't see what you mean. Sure you don't want me apply "
rightclick them" to each of the ~100,000 files one by one, but then, where do I find something representing them all at once? Please be more specific here (as you were above).
Probably due to this "
taking ownership of files" that I failed to understand and apply, the above was not enough to recover access to the XPPro P C from the W2K ones, even after rebooting all of them. Thanks to any help.
Versailles, Sat 9 Jun 2007 13:32:25 +0200, edited (typos) 13:58:00