at the root level add the user with full control to the share permissions & security permissions
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How do a give a user (administrator), permssions to access all users (redirected) folder.
Thet are currently under a root folder called UserData ie:
UserData----User1
|----User2
|----User3
Currenty only the user and system account have any permissions on the users individual folders
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The command window opened by the at command will open with System privileges, which is what allows you to change the permissions. Entering the cacls command directly would run in your security context (so without permissions to the folders), and you'd have to take ownership first and then re-assign all permissions.
The 2 minute delay is just to make sure the scheduled command will be started in the future; one minute is usually not enough, because by Murphy's law, the time will switch while you're typing the command ...
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by: oBdAPosted on 2009-10-07 at 05:58:30ID: 25514817
Preferably without having to take ownership?
On the file server (if RDP, use the console session!), open a command prompt and enter
at <current time + 2 minutes> /interactive cmd
Wait for 2 minutes, and a console window should pop up. In this console window, run
cacls "D:\UserData" /t /e /g "Administrators":F
(obviously replacing "D:\UserData" with the actual path to the UserData folder).