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How to rectify messed up Share permissions?

ainstein / 9 Antworten / Flachansicht Nickles

Dear all, I tried to set up user permissions to share a partition with my main user account (administrative rights, use only for system operations) and with a limited account (primarily use for access to Internet and work). My intention was to allow Full Control to both on my Data-partition. Initially the setup was ok, just that any files created by my Computer Administrator account could not be shifted (when tidying up my folders) by my limited account.

Now I am left with Full Control of my Computer Administrator account, when I am logged in there. I have added the limited account to the User names section in the Security tab for the partition, and given Full Control. In Advanced it tells me: "Apply to: This folder, subfolders and files", which is the same as for the Computer Administrator account, and should be ok.

However, logged in on the limited account, I can view the subfolders of the partition but for their content I get an "Access denied" message. Whatever I did wrong with playing with the "Replace Permission on all child objects..." I now just want to get back to the original setting, which was cumbersome, but worked.

I thought of two options:
1) Change the limited account to a Computer Administrator account, and after a restart back to a limited account.
2) Create another limited account and shift or access the data, then delete the old limited account.

Whilst the latter might be the "easier" option, could someone explain, whether the first option would work, or wether the second option might not work.

Thanks very much in anticipation.

ainstein

ainstein Synthetic_codes „Hi ainstein, Your problem is most likely due to the fact that the File system of...“
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Thanks for your response. I tried changing the limited account to computer administrator, which worked, and I could access all files as in my main administrator account. But when I switched it back to the limited account, it had the old permission settings again.
Now I try to set up a new limited account and access the partition through this and delete the 1st limited account. Hope that works then.