Hello Todd,

Thank you for your reply.
I understand the security permissions on Windows shares and directories.
That is not the problem.
The problem is that I have several directories on a share that don't allow me to change the permissions.
I'm already administrator and have access to this directories, but when I try to change the security permissions I get the error "Access Denied".
Normally I should be able to become the owner of this directory and set permissions.
But that also doesn't work.
I think that the directory with Access Denied is created by anonther user than Administrator.
On an normal Windows 2000 domain it's no problem to change the ownership and/or set security permissions, but on my system it is a problem.
A workaround is:

- Create a new directory with a different name.
- Copy all the data from the directory with the problem.
- Delete the directory with the problem.
- Rename the new directory to the old name.

After this I can set the permissions.

It's no problem to do this on a couple of directories, but we have this problem on all our shares in different levels of the directory-structure.

The question is how can I solve this problem for my complete system at once?

With kind regards,


Robert Boers