Solve : Takeown Fails with Access Denied?

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Answer» Hi, I have some backup folders and files on a local network external drive that have an incorrect owner. The files were created with a .bat file using Robocopy. The incorrect owner is: nobody (Unix User\nobody) The owner should be: administrator (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin) I have tried the following as administrator: PROPERTIES > Security > Advanced > Owner > Edit > change owner to I get access denied. And with DOS from an administrator command prompt: takeown /f S:\BackUp-Music\Recordings\AmbroseNew I get access denied. I can access the directory so my path must be correct: dir S:\BackUp-Music\Recordings\AmbroseNew Does anyone have a suggestion for me? Thanks Frank C Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/4ced0f3f-3dbc-4f3c-9fb8-17115689b1e5 Click Start, type: CMD, right CMD > Click Run as Administrator > at the Command Prompt, type > regedit > hit Enter > go down to > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion > to change the RegisteredOwner, simply double click it and enter yours, do the same for Registered Organization -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andre Da Costa http://adacosta.spaces.live.com http://www.activewin.com Marked As Answer byShawn - Support Engineer Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:18 PM ________________________________ http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/quick-tip-change-the-registered-owner-in-windows/ Thanks for the reply Marvinengland, I don't want to change the registered owner of the computer. I only need to change the owner of five folders and their contents on my local network external disk. Quote from: FrankGC on May 10, 2010, 08:15:18 AM Thanks for the reply Marvinengland, I don't want to change the registered owner of the computer. I only need to change the owner of five folders and their contents on my local network external disk. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040 http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/default.aspx?ws=support ( all the following information from the above site. ) "To turn Simple File Sharing on or off in Windows, follow these steps: Double-click My Computer on the desktop. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options. Click the View tab, and then select the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) check box to turn on Simple File Sharing. (Clear this check box to turn off this feature.) To view a video about how to turn Simple File Sharing on or off, click the Play button (Collapse this imageExpand this IMAGE) on the following Windows Media Player viewer:" Thanks for the reply marvinengland, I have Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2. I don't have :"Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) check box to turn on Simple File Sharing" Instead I have "Use Sharing Wizard (recommended" Should I deselect it (untick)? Your response seems to indicate that my DIFFICULTY arises from the FACT that my network drive an it's folders and files are SHARED. This is true. I recently tried to run takeown from a command prompt at boot time. This also failed with could not find the path. Thanks Frank Camp

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Hi,
I have some backup folders and files on a local network external drive that have an incorrect owner. The files were created with a .bat file using Robocopy.
The incorrect owner is:
nobody (Unix User\nobody)
The owner should be:
administrator (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin)

I have tried the following as administrator:
PROPERTIES > Security > Advanced > Owner > Edit > change owner to
I get access denied.

And with DOS from an administrator command prompt:
takeown /f S:\BackUp-Music\Recordings\AmbroseNew
I get access denied.

I can access the directory so my path must be correct:
dir S:\BackUp-Music\Recordings\AmbroseNew

Does anyone have a suggestion for me?
Thanks
Frank C
Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/4ced0f3f-3dbc-4f3c-9fb8-17115689b1e5

Click Start, type: CMD, right CMD > Click Run as Administrator > at the Command
Prompt, type > regedit > hit Enter >
go down to > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion >
to change the RegisteredOwner, simply double click it and enter yours,
do the same for Registered Organization
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andre Da Costa http://adacosta.spaces.live.com http://www.activewin.com
Marked As Answer byShawn - Support Engineer Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:18 PM
________________________________

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/quick-tip-change-the-registered-owner-in-windows/
Thanks for the reply Marvinengland,
I don't want to change the registered owner of the computer. I only need to change the owner of five folders and their contents on my local network external disk.
Quote from: FrankGC on May 10, 2010, 08:15:18 AM

Thanks for the reply Marvinengland,
I don't want to change the registered owner of the computer. I only need to change the owner of five folders and their contents on my local network external disk.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/default.aspx?ws=support

( all the following information from the above site. )

"To turn Simple File Sharing on or off in Windows, follow these steps:
Double-click My Computer on the desktop.
On the Tools menu, click Folder Options.
Click the View tab, and then select the Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) check box to turn on Simple File Sharing. (Clear this check box to turn off this feature.)
To view a video about how to turn Simple File Sharing on or off, click the Play button (Collapse this imageExpand this IMAGE) on the following Windows Media Player viewer:"
Thanks for the reply marvinengland,
I have Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP2.
I don't have :"Use Simple File Sharing (Recommended) check box to turn on Simple File Sharing"
Instead I have "Use Sharing Wizard (recommended" Should I deselect it (untick)? Your response seems to indicate that my DIFFICULTY arises from the FACT that my network drive an it's folders and files are SHARED. This is true. I recently tried to run takeown from a command prompt at boot time. This also failed with could not find the path.
Thanks
Frank Camp

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