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NTFS Permissions - File/Folder Owner
Hi,
Hoping somebody can help answer me a query I have about NTFS permissions and folder owners.
We have some network shares which have a pretty standard setup. As an example on one of them, share permissions have change access for everyone and NTFS permissions are locked down to just three global groups - Generic-RO, Generic-RW and Domain Admins.
The "problem" (if it actually is one) is that if a standard user creates a folder or file, when checking the owner of that, it is listed as the user being the owner. When somebody who doesn't have Read/Write access tries to delete a file, they get the message that they need permissions from the user who created the object eg Domain\John.Smith. I was under the impression that it should be administrators that are always the folder/file owners. Looking at a lot of other folders and files on other shares we have, there seems to be a mix of the owners being either server\administrators or domain\user (the person that created the file). Some folders which I know were definitely not created by any administrator on the domain has server\administrators as the owner and others have the user as the owner. I am struggling to find an explanation for this.
Is this correct behaviour?
I assumed that the owner would always be the administrator or administrators group. As an admin, I can change ownership of the files and folders no problem but I'm not sure if the original owner issue is expected behaviour.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood how this works. If there is anybody able to offer any advice, I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
Hoping somebody can help answer me a query I have about NTFS permissions and folder owners.
We have some network shares which have a pretty standard setup. As an example on one of them, share permissions have change access for everyone and NTFS permissions are locked down to just three global groups - Generic-RO, Generic-RW and Domain Admins.
The "problem" (if it actually is one) is that if a standard user creates a folder or file, when checking the owner of that, it is listed as the user being the owner. When somebody who doesn't have Read/Write access tries to delete a file, they get the message that they need permissions from the user who created the object eg Domain\John.Smith. I was under the impression that it should be administrators that are always the folder/file owners. Looking at a lot of other folders and files on other shares we have, there seems to be a mix of the owners being either server\administrators or domain\user (the person that created the file). Some folders which I know were definitely not created by any administrator on the domain has server\administrators as the owner and others have the user as the owner. I am struggling to find an explanation for this.
Is this correct behaviour?
I assumed that the owner would always be the administrator or administrators group. As an admin, I can change ownership of the files and folders no problem but I'm not sure if the original owner issue is expected behaviour.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood how this works. If there is anybody able to offer any advice, I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
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I was confused because some folders which I know users have created, have the owner listed as server\administrators. If my problem is default behaviour, I would expect to ALWAYS see the owner as the user who created the object, but that does not appear to be happening.
The reason I was concerned is because when looking at the effective permissions for an object where the user is the owner, it has "change permissions" as being granted. I actually tested this with a certain user and if they try to change the NTFS permissions, they do get access denied.
Do you know why it says they have change permissions when they actually don't? Is that coming from the share permissions or something?
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