Is there some way to manually specify who owns a folder. For exemple: let's say that I want to say that user LFTalora owns the folder FolderX. Is there a tool that makes it possible, as the "chown" tool on UNIX? Thank you all!!!

I am not that familar with Unix but knowing microsoft I have to imagine that folder ownership will mean something different then in Unix. Just like "domain" is different. You can assign ownership if the disk format is ntfs. Can't do with fat. Go to the folders properties/security/advanced tab and you will see that you can set the ownership

Ownership cannot be assigned, only taken, at least via the GUI. You can do some neat things via the command line CACLS, but I haven't tried to assign ownership with it - that is not one of the options listed for it. If the Administrator makes a folder, they own it. They can give another user the ability to Take Ownership (GUI). But that user has to do it themselves. IE: login as that user and then Take Ownership of the folder in question. ..... hmmm, okay, nothing like a little MS search to learn new things. Try http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;265360 ..... Yep, works as advertised, although the syntax is really picky. Thanks for the lesson! ;)

Yep you are right Michael. That will teach me not to forget what forum I am in [thinking W2K]

Good thing you had mentioned NTFS, wanderer. I just ass u me d that lftalora knew what he/she was talking about. I know, I shouldn't. Doesn't matter what forum, that's just the way the GUI MS NTFS file/folder security/ownership works. At least, I don't see a method of changing the ownership on my Advanced tab. It does only say "You can TAKE ownership of an object if you have the appropriate permissions". I don't have any way of forcing another user to take ownership there. Do you? And what's really funny, this type of question was on one of my school exams. The teach and I discussed this during the exam. Guess he didn't know about the subinacl command either.

Once again you are right Michael. I have working with servers/networking for 10years now and this is a surprise to me. When I answered the question I was looking at my w2k pro workstation. I looked at ownership and saw myself and administrator. I could set myself as owner so I figured I could assign. Well after your post I started looking a little closer and discovered that it was my domain not local. So I say no big deal I added a couple more domain accounts. They never showed up as a selection for ownership. So now I don't know how my domain account got to be listed in ownership. Trust microsoft to give me a mystery. Thanks for the correction!

I wonder if you (the user) belong to the admin group, or the same group that owns the folder. Maybe that would explain it? Maybe you've run afoul of the inheritance rules? Mind you, I always thought that there could only be one user as owner.