From: PaulB108 on
Good afternoon,

In an effort to protect a particular folder from unwanted changes I earlier
right clicked on that folder and chose propoerties>security
tab>advanced>owner tab and changed the current owner to myself. I would like
to go back and change that to "Administrators" again for the time being but
it will not let me. I get a message box saying:
"Unable to set new owner on ___
This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object".

I am unsure what to do next...could someone please help?
From: Saucy on
Log as the Administrator and take possession then.

"PaulB108" <PaulB108(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE9DCA82-F08E-4E51-9985-D267AF4E7F4B(a)microsoft.com...
> Good afternoon,
>
> In an effort to protect a particular folder from unwanted changes I
> earlier
> right clicked on that folder and chose propoerties>security
> tab>advanced>owner tab and changed the current owner to myself. I would
> like
> to go back and change that to "Administrators" again for the time being
> but
> it will not let me. I get a message box saying:
> "Unable to set new owner on ___
> This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object".
>
> I am unsure what to do next...could someone please help?

From: sgopus on
are you logged on as admin while your trying to take it back?

"PaulB108" wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> In an effort to protect a particular folder from unwanted changes I earlier
> right clicked on that folder and chose propoerties>security
> tab>advanced>owner tab and changed the current owner to myself. I would like
> to go back and change that to "Administrators" again for the time being but
> it will not let me. I get a message box saying:
> "Unable to set new owner on ___
> This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object".
>
> I am unsure what to do next...could someone please help?
From: PaulB108 on
I do not believe so-so good point! However I was not logged in as admin when
I made the original change either...

"sgopus" wrote:

> are you logged on as admin while your trying to take it back?
>
> "PaulB108" wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > In an effort to protect a particular folder from unwanted changes I earlier
> > right clicked on that folder and chose propoerties>security
> > tab>advanced>owner tab and changed the current owner to myself. I would like
> > to go back and change that to "Administrators" again for the time being but
> > it will not let me. I get a message box saying:
> > "Unable to set new owner on ___
> > This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object".
> >
> > I am unsure what to do next...could someone please help?
From: PaulB108 on
But how is it then that I was able to change the owner in the first place
without being logged on as an administrator?

"Saucy" wrote:

> Log as the Administrator and take possession then.
>
> "PaulB108" <PaulB108(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FE9DCA82-F08E-4E51-9985-D267AF4E7F4B(a)microsoft.com...
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > In an effort to protect a particular folder from unwanted changes I
> > earlier
> > right clicked on that folder and chose propoerties>security
> > tab>advanced>owner tab and changed the current owner to myself. I would
> > like
> > to go back and change that to "Administrators" again for the time being
> > but
> > it will not let me. I get a message box saying:
> > "Unable to set new owner on ___
> > This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object".
> >
> > I am unsure what to do next...could someone please help?
>
> .
>