Windows icacls access denied

Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 9 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 8k times. I am on Windows Server Edit: Interestingly enough, the command works fine in Windows Server Improve this question. In there, you can specify whether the permissions apply to "This folder, subfolders, and files", or "Subfolders and files only".

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Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. File Services and Storage. Sign in to vote. Good afternoon all, I've some files where can't take the ownership of. I am a member of the adminsitrator group. Friday, February 17, PM. Hello A few weeks, I resolve a similar issue into a customer. The problem came from a NTFS permission.

Because of emergency, I make it manually. I think a best solution is a scriptable. Last point, Systernal tool accesschk. Oscar Virot. Saturday, February 18, AM.

Monday, February 20, AM. Wednesday, February 22, PM. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Edited by reneweesp Saturday, March 17, PM.

Sunday, March 11, PM. But the takeown command is not working for us. Now what? Software Developer. Tuesday, February 26, AM. Run command as admin 2. Proposed as answer by svobol13 Wednesday, March 29, PM. Tuesday, January 21, AM.

Is there anything else I can try? Thank you! Thursday, July 31, PM. I had the same problem as you. It was applied by Windows by default. Proposed as answer by abernitz Friday, November 10, AM. Sunday, November 30, PM. Thank you. Sunday, March 5, PM. I am not going to mark this as the answer since the posts above would be so much more helpful for someone stopping by for a quick bit of help.

To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. The basics: File Server running windows Server R2 - part of AD Domain Folder on said server had is "Domain Users - Full Control" permissions set to Deny by one of my admins I have tried to take ownership and set ACLs with icacls and get "Access is Denied" at every turn I have tried creating a new domain admin that is not a member of the domain users group - it is still unable to access the files i have tried logging into the server with the local administrator - it is also unable to affect any changes - getting access is denied in CMD and Powershell i cant even run get-acls in powershell without getting access errors i am hoping someone has some ideas I'm about out.

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