Go Start-run, secpol.msc
Look for
System Objects: Default owner for objects created by members of teh
Administrators Group

Set it to Administrators group.

To figure out the inheritance problems, what are the inheritance settings on
the top-level parent folder?

--
Chris Weber
Security MVP


"Brian Elkins" <BrianElkins@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E29FD17E-08B9-4F24-B821-36E96CD52779@microsoft.com...
>I have a workstation (XP Pro SP2) authenticated to a domain that has three
> users in the Administrators group.
>
> There is a root level folder that goes several levels deep beyond that.
>
> All users within the Administrators group require access to this folder.
>
> I have gone into the Advanced tab and verified Administrators have Full
> Control on that particular folder.
>
> I went into the Owner tab and set "Current owner of this item" to
> Administrators and checked "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects."
>
> I selected and applied "Replace permission entries on all child objects
> with
> entries shown here that apply to child objects."
>
> I realize permissions and ownership are two different things.
>
> Here is the problem:
>
> There is a program that the three individuals run that writes files into
> this folder.
>
> When one individual is logged onto the workstation the files are created
> and
> the ownership is set to that particular person for the created files.
>
> Is there a way for ownership to be inherited? Also, permissions are not
> being inherited which has me stumped.