Help! Can't take Ownership - Security Tab Missing! Win2k

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Run checkdisk on that computer to see if it finds and fixes any disk errors.
If that does not help there are two tools available from Microsoft that you
can use to try and force the issue with ownership - subinacl and fileacl. I
find fileacl a bit easier to master. See the links below for more specifics.
Another option may be to use ntbackup to backup the folders and restore them
to a folder where you are owner and have full control to try and gain
access.. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;265360 -- how to
use subinacl to take ownership.
http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/fileacl.htm -- note the /force switch
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

"Eric" <eb_two@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3020b5bd.0410060709.7af1c07a@posting.google.com...
>I have a couple folders that I am denied access to. So I log in as the
> local system Administrator so that I can take ownership - yet the
> Security tab is missing! All I have for properties of this folder is
> General and Sharing. The folder's parent does have the Security tab,
> and in that I am able to take ownership, but when I tell it to also
> "Replace owner on subcontainers and object" I get an "Access is
> denied" message.
>
> Help! How can I get securty set on a folder that doesn't let me take
> ownership!
>
> I've tried the Local Administrator account, the Domain Administrator
> account, and my personal account. I can not seem to find a way to get
> in to this folder, and nor can my users. This is a huge show-stopper
> for us.
>
> Your assistance is sincerely appreciated. Thank you for reading.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric Brander

I had the same problem and it was causing my backups to fail.
I logged onto the offending server and opened Computer Management (right click My Computer - Manage), opened Shared Folders - Open Files.
Browsing revealed a connection to the folder I couldn't access. It was in Read Open Mode by one of our users. I right clicked the file - Close Open File and this removed the offending folder from the server (I presume that the user had deleted the folder but not released the connection to the server).
I suspect rebooting the server would have done the same thing as this was a case of a folder being locked by another process.