Two additional things. Version of subinacl, make sure it's the latest (don't have it and don't recall what it is).
Next, and this is my hunch is that you aren't running an elevated command prompt. Even if you're logged on as admin that command prompt will not have sufficient priveleges to perform the taking ownership operation. I believe it even carries through if UAC is turned off, though I'm new enough to Win7/Vista to be unsure, and restarting to test on my Win7 box is not possible right now. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > With the correct syntax it works but fails on the directories I need > access to. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:51 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Taking ownership of User Dir on vista hard drive > > So, the syntax was wrong? > Appeared to work but then you couldn't do something you expected to be able > to do? > > Note, after you've taken ownership you still have to apply permissions so > you can access the files. > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> didn't work, and cacls gives me the cannot find the path specified error >> Wonder if a bartpe disk would ignore the ACL >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:26 AM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: Taking ownership of User Dir on vista hard drive >> >> IIRC >> subinacl /subdirectories <drive>:\<folderpath>\*.* >> /setowner=domain\<username> >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:02 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Could I have a little help with the subinacl syntax. I thinking this >>> is right if I want to take ownership but I have something wrong. >>> suninacl /subdirectories /setowner=domain\user "path" >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:29 AM >>> >>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >>> *Subject:* Re: Taking ownership of User Dir on vista hard drive >>> >>> I've seen some really scragged permissions sets down the years. >>> Sometimes a brute-force combo of subinacl and cacls is the only way to bang >>> them into submission. >>> >>> 2010/1/14 N Parr <[email protected]> >>> >>>> not yet, tried the takeown utility in vista and it didn't work. I can >>>> get in the the user folder but there are sub folders like my docs that it >>>> won't give me access to. >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:41 AM >>>> >>>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >>>> *Subject:* Re: Taking ownership of User Dir on vista hard drive >>>> >>>> Have you tried using subinacl? >>>> >>>> 2010/1/13 N Parr <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> I've never had issues with this before but this one has me stumped. I >>>>> have a drive out of a users vista pc that died. In the past I've been >>>>> able >>>>> to take ownership of the users or Doc/settings dir and get the files >>>>> copied >>>>> off but for some reason this one won't let me. I can try to take >>>>> ownership >>>>> but it won't do it. Tried on an XP and Vista machine. Google is failing >>>>> me, any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put >>>> into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not >>>> able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke >>>> such a question." >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into >>> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able >>> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such >>> a question." >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
