Locked out of user

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I login to a domain at work with a username with administrator privileges.
For a certain reason (stupidity), I logged on as the local administrator,
opened windows explorer, open the properties of my domain user and set the
properties to deny.

Now windows has created a new user and all my files and documents under my
previous user are blocked even after going back to properties as
administrator and setting everything to Allow.

Please help.

 

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This one's a problem that I'm seeing more and more (in fact, I copied this
from a previous post of mine). It's due to the different security settings
on the NTFS file system. There's several ways to gain the necessary
permissions on these files.

1) Use a free NTFS to DOS reader to copy the files to a FAT32 file system.
This will effectively strip the various permissions from the files.
2) Use a Live Linux distro - such as Knoppix - to copy the files elsewhere.
3) Take ownership of the files/folders in question - so that you can
manipulate them as yours. This method works, but it's very quirky at times -
it'll require different tactics on different folders and files.

Here's some articles on how to do it: Thes documents all deal with
permissions, ownership, and access denied errors.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/index.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q304040&ID=KB;EN-US;q304040
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281248
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308418
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

Again, please be aware that the changing of these settings is a bit flakey -
and may reuire repeated attempts on the folder and sub-folders to get it to
work.

Good luck - this can be frustrating!



"hlacroix" wrote:

> I login to a domain at work with a username with administrator privileges.
> For a certain reason (stupidity), I logged on as the local administrator,
> opened windows explorer, open the properties of my domain user and set the
> properties to deny.
>
> Now windows has created a new user and all my files and documents under my
> previous user are blocked even after going back to properties as
> administrator and setting everything to Allow.
>
> Please help.