Chris,

Thank you! That took care of it plus you're the only one who truly
understood what I was asking.

Brian

"Chris Weber [Security MVP]" wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>