Ownership of folders in file server

Hi Guys,
I am facing a problem with my file server. I have a file server installed windows server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 in it. There are 4 drives and almost 99% folders are created by 1st domain user account having domain admin rights.
Because I was facing problem that 2nd domain user account having domain admin rights was not able to open, change permissions of shared folders and giving error access is denied, so I logged on with 1st domain user account having domain admin rights
and transferred the ownership to local admin group (local admin user account resides in this group). So that I can make any kind of changes through local admin account.
Now I can open and provide permissions on single folders through local admin account but still I cant select 'replace all child object permissions from this object' option any where while assigning permissions and getting error access denied.
And I can see 1st domain user account having domain admin rights is still present in ownership tab with local admin group. Ownership has transferred successfully because I got no error while doing that, so what would be the solution for this?
Is there any way we can remove unwanted owners from 'security-advanced-owner-edit' tab and can keep only one owner we want?

Hi,
I'm a little confuse about the process.
Why not just logon your 1st user and give 2nd user (or Domain Admins group) Full Control permission in NTFS permission instead? Transfer Ownership is not a common step for this purpose.
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Taking Ownership of folders and files

So I am doing what sure seems like way too much work to do something rather simple in GUI. There seem to be many topics on this and I base my code off of their results, but it isn't working entirely. Hopefully an easy one for you folks! I am trying
to take ownership of a path, be it a file or folder. I DO NOT want to use a separate module like PSCX as not all machines will have the module.
I created a function based off the code I found at the end of
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/87679d43-04d5-4894-b35b-f37a6f5558cb/ that I can pass a path to singularly or I was hoping to be able to pipe Get-ChildItem to it. When I do "Get-ChildItem -Path D:\Permissions\TopFolder -Recurse
-Force | Take-Ownership" it seemed to work, but then I noticed it only seems to work going one layer deep. The text output for troubleshooting shows it recursing all the way through, but yet Owner is not being set all the way down.
Folder layout:
D:\Permissions\TopFolder
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFile.txt
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFile.txt
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder\ThirdFolder
D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder\ThirdFile.txt
Function Take-Ownership {
[CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName=”Set01”)]
Param(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$True,ValueFromPipelinebyPropertyName=$True,Position=1,ParameterSetName='Set01')]
[string]$Path,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipelinebyPropertyName=$True,ParameterSetName='Set02')]
[Alias('FullName')][string]$FullPath
) # End of Param()
Begin {
# Check that script was Run as Administrator
If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole(`
[Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black "`n ERROR: You MUST have Administrator rights to run this script!"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black " Re-run this script as an Administrator!`n"
Break
#P/Invoke'd C# code to enable required privileges to take ownership and make changes when NTFS permissions are lacking
$AdjustTokenPrivileges = @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class TokenManipulator
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool AdjustTokenPrivileges(IntPtr htok, bool disall,
ref TokPriv1Luid newst, int len, IntPtr prev, IntPtr relen);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", ExactSpelling = true)]
internal static extern IntPtr GetCurrentProcess();
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool OpenProcessToken(IntPtr h, int acc, ref IntPtr
phtok);
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool LookupPrivilegeValue(string host, string name,
ref long pluid);
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)]
internal struct TokPriv1Luid
public int Count;
public long Luid;
public int Attr;
internal const int SE_PRIVILEGE_DISABLED = 0x00000000;
internal const int SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = 0x00000002;
internal const int TOKEN_QUERY = 0x00000008;
internal const int TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = 0x00000020;
public static bool AddPrivilege(string privilege)
try
bool retVal;
TokPriv1Luid tp;
IntPtr hproc = GetCurrentProcess();
IntPtr htok = IntPtr.Zero;
retVal = OpenProcessToken(hproc, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, ref htok);
tp.Count = 1;
tp.Luid = 0;
tp.Attr = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
retVal = LookupPrivilegeValue(null, privilege, ref tp.Luid);
retVal = AdjustTokenPrivileges(htok, false, ref tp, 0, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
return retVal;
catch (Exception ex)
throw ex;
public static bool RemovePrivilege(string privilege)
try
bool retVal;
TokPriv1Luid tp;
IntPtr hproc = GetCurrentProcess();
IntPtr htok = IntPtr.Zero;
retVal = OpenProcessToken(hproc, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, ref htok);
tp.Count = 1;
tp.Luid = 0;
tp.Attr = SE_PRIVILEGE_DISABLED;
retVal = LookupPrivilegeValue(null, privilege, ref tp.Luid);
retVal = AdjustTokenPrivileges(htok, false, ref tp, 0, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
return retVal;
catch (Exception ex)
throw ex;
Add-Type $AdjustTokenPrivileges
# Activate necessary admin privileges to make changes without NTFS perms on the folder
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeRestorePrivilege") # Necessary to set Owner Permissions
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeBackupPrivilege") # Necessary to bypass Traverse Checking
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege") # Necessary to override File Permissions
$Admin = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("BUILTIN\Administrators")
$NewDirACL = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.DirectorySecurity
$NewFileACL = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSecurity
$NewDirACL.SetOwner($Admin)
$NewFileACL.SetOwner($Admin)
} # End of Begin {}
Process {
if( $FullPath.Length -gt 0 ) {
if( Test-Path $FullPath ) {
$Path = $FullPath
if( Test-Path $Path -PathType Container ) {
"Take Ownership: $Path"
$Folder = Get-Item $Path -Force
$Folder.SetAccessControl($NewDirACL)
} elseif( Test-Path $Path -PathType Leaf ) {
"Take Ownership: $Path"
$File = Get-Item $Path -Force
$File.SetAccessControl($NewFileACL)
} else {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black "ERROR: Path does not exist: $Path"
} # End of Process {}
End { } # End of End {}
} # End of Function Take-Ownership
To run this I have been doing:
PS D:\> $Folder = 'D:\Permissions\TopFolder'
PS D:\> Get-Item $Folder | Get-Acl
Directory: D:\Permissions
Path Owner
TopFolder DOMAIN\user1
PS D:\> Get-ChildItem $Folder -Force -Recurse | Get-Acl
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder
Path Owner
FirstFolder DOMAIN\user1
FirstFile.txt DOMAIN\user1
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder
Path Owner
SecondFolder DOMAIN\user1
SecondFile.txt DOMAIN\user1
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder
Path Owner
ThirdFolder DOMAIN\user1
ThirdFile.txt DOMAIN\user1
PS D:\>
PS D:\> Get-Item $Folder | Take-Ownership
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder
PS D:\> Get-ChildItem $Folder -Force -Recurse | Take-Ownership
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFile.txt
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFile.txt
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder\ThirdFolder
Take Ownership: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder\ThirdFile.txt
PS D:\>
PS D:\>
PS D:\> Get-Item $Folder | Get-Acl
Directory: D:\Permissions
Path Owner
TopFolder BUILTIN\Administrators
PS D:\> Get-ChildItem $Folder -Force -Recurse | Get-Acl
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder
Path Owner
FirstFolder BUILTIN\Administrators
FirstFile.txt BUILTIN\Administrators
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder
Path Owner
SecondFolder DOMAIN\user1
SecondFile.txt DOMAIN\user1
Directory: D:\Permissions\TopFolder\FirstFolder\SecondFolder
Path Owner
ThirdFolder DOMAIN\user1
ThirdFile.txt DOMAIN\user1
PS D:\>
I don't know why this isn't working. The output text shows I went through the subfolders and files...HELP!
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Here is the end result. I am looking to add a '-Recurse'/'-Force' switches to give another option to not have to Get-ChildItem and pipe it to the function and possibly a '-User' parameter to be able to specify who to set as owner, but both of those ideas
are untested.
Here is the code. Hope it helps someone else.
Function Take-Ownership {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
This function takes ownership of a file or folder and sets it back to 'BUILTIN\Administrators'.
.DESCRIPTION
This function takes ownership of a file or folder and sets it back to 'BUILTIN\Administrators'.
This will work even when the user does not have ownership or existing permissions on the file or folder.
.EXAMPLE
PS C:\> Take-Ownership -Path $Path
Takes ownership of the individual folder or file. The -Path is optional as long as $Path
is the first parameter.
.EXAMPLE
PS C:\> Get-Item $Path | Take-Ownership
Takes ownership of the individual folder or file.
.EXAMPLE
PS C:\> Get-ChildItem $Path -Recurse -Force | Take-Ownership
Recurse through all folders and files, including hidden, and takes ownership.
#>
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $True, ValueFromPipelinebyPropertyName = $True, Position = 0)]
[Alias('FullName')]
[string]$Path
) # End of Param()
Begin {
# Check that script was Run as Administrator
If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole(`
[Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black "`n ERROR: You MUST have Administrator rights to run this script!"
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black " Re-run this script as an Administrator!`n"
Return
#P/Invoke'd C# code to enable required privileges to take ownership and make changes when NTFS permissions are lacking
$AdjustTokenPrivileges = @"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class TokenManipulator
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool AdjustTokenPrivileges(IntPtr htok, bool disall,
ref TokPriv1Luid newst, int len, IntPtr prev, IntPtr relen);
[DllImport("kernel32.dll", ExactSpelling = true)]
internal static extern IntPtr GetCurrentProcess();
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool OpenProcessToken(IntPtr h, int acc, ref IntPtr
phtok);
[DllImport("advapi32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern bool LookupPrivilegeValue(string host, string name,
ref long pluid);
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, Pack = 1)]
internal struct TokPriv1Luid
public int Count;
public long Luid;
public int Attr;
internal const int SE_PRIVILEGE_DISABLED = 0x00000000;
internal const int SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED = 0x00000002;
internal const int TOKEN_QUERY = 0x00000008;
internal const int TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES = 0x00000020;
public static bool AddPrivilege(string privilege)
try
bool retVal;
TokPriv1Luid tp;
IntPtr hproc = GetCurrentProcess();
IntPtr htok = IntPtr.Zero;
retVal = OpenProcessToken(hproc, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, ref htok);
tp.Count = 1;
tp.Luid = 0;
tp.Attr = SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED;
retVal = LookupPrivilegeValue(null, privilege, ref tp.Luid);
retVal = AdjustTokenPrivileges(htok, false, ref tp, 0, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
return retVal;
catch (Exception ex)
throw ex;
public static bool RemovePrivilege(string privilege)
try
bool retVal;
TokPriv1Luid tp;
IntPtr hproc = GetCurrentProcess();
IntPtr htok = IntPtr.Zero;
retVal = OpenProcessToken(hproc, TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | TOKEN_QUERY, ref htok);
tp.Count = 1;
tp.Luid = 0;
tp.Attr = SE_PRIVILEGE_DISABLED;
retVal = LookupPrivilegeValue(null, privilege, ref tp.Luid);
retVal = AdjustTokenPrivileges(htok, false, ref tp, 0, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero);
return retVal;
catch (Exception ex)
throw ex;
Add-Type $AdjustTokenPrivileges
# Activate necessary admin privileges to make changes without NTFS perms on the folder
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeRestorePrivilege") # Necessary to set Owner Permissions
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeBackupPrivilege") # Necessary to bypass Traverse Checking
[void][TokenManipulator]::AddPrivilege("SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege") # Necessary to override File Permissions
} # End of Begin {}
Process {
# Process for taking Ownership of the folder
# - Specify the NT Account user to set as Owner (BUILTIN\Administrators)
# - Create a new ACL object for the sole purpose of defining a new owner
# - Establish the new ACL as owned by BUILTIN\Administrators, thus
# guaranteeing the following ACL changes can be applied.
# - Then apply that update to the existing folder's ACL which merges
# the proposed changes (new owner) into the folder's actual ACL
# - - IN OUR CASE OVERWRITING THE OWNER
# - Additional Documentation:
# http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Security.AccessControl(v=vs.110).aspx
$Admin = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("BUILTIN\Administrators")
$NewDirACL = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.DirectorySecurity
$NewFileACL = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSecurity
$NewDirACL.SetOwner($Admin)
$NewFileACL.SetOwner($Admin)
if( Test-Path $Path -PathType Container ) {
$Folder = Get-Item $Path -Force
$Folder.SetAccessControl($NewDirACL)
} elseif( Test-Path $Path -PathType Leaf ) {
$File = Get-Item $Path -Force
$File.SetAccessControl($NewFileACL)
} else {
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black "ERROR: Path does not exist: $Path"
} # End of Process {}
End { } # End of End {}
} # End of Function Take-Ownership
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At this point i have time to plan and am just looking for ideas.

Hi,
If you want to copy files/folders from one Volume to another volume, you could use the File Server Migration Tool (FSMT) or Robocopy to accomplish.
The tool can move all of the files from the shares on your original volume to the new volume.
FSMT and Robocopy will not copy Share permissions but only NTFS permissions. So if the drive letter will not be changed, you can backup and restore the Share permission with steps here:
Saving and restoring existing Windows shares
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125996
Regards.
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How can I make a file server sync with a laptop when it connectsSOLVED

Ok, first let me say that I looked on the Internet for this but didn't find what I was looking for. I'm going to be setting up a simple file server for my in laws soon...they use windows so I'll be using samba on the server side.
They have 3 computers and want to be able to have all there files stored in one central place so they can share them easily and also have them backed up at the same time. They have 2 desktops and one laptop.
The desktops are not a big deal to sync with the server because they are on all the time and I can just use a cron job or something. Then problem is the laptop..
What can I do to make the laptop automatically sync when it gets on the network?
The catch is this needs to be ran from the server side so they have a "hands free" experience or whatever. If you know a way for the laptop to do this in the background I guess that would work too.
I know this is probably a very simple task but so far everything I find the user would have to manually start the sync.
Thanks in advance for you help!
Last edited by jonrd (2008-07-27 04:28:57)

Is it necessary that all the files are on the local hard disks? In the case of the laptop I could understand this if the laptop is also used outside the network, but the desktops should stay in place, no?
It could be as easy as to make a shortcut on all the computers to the samba-share and tell the inlaws that they have to use the samba-share to store their (shared) files.
You are correct about this but I doubt they would remember to use this all the time so I want to sync the folders just in case.
Assuming the laptop is always going to be in the same IP address when it connects to the network (which is unlikely in default configurations), you could create a script that checks for the existence of the machine on the network then perform a sync. I had a script written in Python somewhere that would check to make sure the server side was up and run unison, but it could be modified to check for the laptop and copy files. Let me know if that's something you're interested in and I can post it for you.
This sounds like what I'm looking for. Also I wander If it could be done by NetBIOS name instead of ip address? This way It wouldn't matter.
The script sounds like what I'm looking for though
Thanks for the help!

Can you set a max size for a folder on a file server

I've got a G5 Xserve that I'm using as a file server running 10.3.9. I need more space on my array so I bought bigger drives and will move the data to the new, larger array.
For the health of my drives, I want my array to maintain at least 10% free space so I would like for the people using the shares to only see 90% of the larger space. (I don't want to have to be the 'drive space' policeman 6 months from now when the RAID fills up again)
I know I could create 2 partitions in diskutil but I'd like something more dynamic.
Ideally I'd like to put my shared folders inside of a main folder and tell Server to only display 90% of the size of the partition when a folder from the partition is mounted remotely. That way people won't know there is a quota which keeps them from trying to copy data into a share that shows 10% free space.
The shares are used by both macs and PCs so I'd rather not go with a solution based upon network protocol.
Many Thanks,
Paul
G5 Xserve Mac OS X (10.3.9)

There's no way I'm aware of to artificially display a different capacity/available space than what's actually there. If it's a 1TB volume, it's a 1TB volume and the OS isn't going to report that as 900GB.
The only other solutions I can think of is to either enable quotas which will let you restrict the amount of disk space any user can consume, or attach a folder action to the volume where the script automatically checks the volume size whenever new files are added and takes action at the appropriate time (you need to define what that action is, though).

KM vs File Server

In our organization we have around 8000 employees.
If I create a foler of each employee in KM ....containing 10 files like photo, passport , some other documents....
So totally I need to create 8000 folders containg 10 files in each ....i,e 80000 files I need to store.
Will it cause in Performance issue?
Can a foler in KM can store 80000 files or any size restriction is there?
Will it be better to store in File Server ?
What are the advantages/ dis advantages if we store in KM over File Server
Thanks ,
Srinivas

Hi Srinivas,
there are different advantage to use km instead of the pure file system like the usablility advantage:
- single point of access
- for every file persistance store the same user interface
- to reach all documents over the internet
- and so on
on the other and you must think about performance issues.
But it is but to your configuration if you have performance issues or not.
Depending an your files you can choose as persistance layer the FS repository, the CM Repository and this repository exists in three different persistance types like db, fsdb and dbfs. Depending on the needed features and the minimum, maximum and averadge file size you choose your repository type.
Thenevertheless it makes no sense to have about 8000 files in one single folder. So a performance issue depends as well on your folder structure.
These are only some hints regardsing performance aspects.
Best regards
Frank

Ownership of folders in file server

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