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OneDrive downloaded files with wrong permissions
We have a Windows Server 2019 that has OneDrive configured. The OneDrive folder is being shared at the same time as a shared drive on users computers. There are a few users that have direct access to ...
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Run script elevated as different user on remote machine
I have a Windows Scheduled Task that runs a Powershell script file A.ps1. This task runs mostly locally and does NOT need elevation/administrator access. However, a few steps need to run on a remote ...
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Execute windows exe files on wsl after metadata,umask=022, fmask=111
WSL can't run any exe files after I added options = "metadata,umask=022,fmask=111" to wsl config. The reason I did this is so I can share ssh keys from a parent windows machine. So I would ...
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What is the concept of permissions under security tab versus sharing tab?
I have a shared folder.
When I right click on it and click properties, then,
Under security tab I can see list of users.
Under sharing tab, under permissions I can see a list of users.
It looks like ...
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How to manage permissions for IIS sites with 'Authenticated Users' group
Have multiple sites (2) hosted on IIS with PHP. Each site runs under its own application pool, therefore each instance of w3wp.exe (IIS Worker Process) and php-cgi.exe runs under the respective ...
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Windows 10. Lost access to my files as administrator
I am the administrator and I can no longer access my files in d drive. I can not change the access permissions back either even if running Explorer.exe as administrator.
I was trying to create a ...
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Corrupted file yields in error "The file cannot be accessed by the system" when accessing WSL app
This is a well known error, but the common solutions don't seem to work and I'm also seeing something else that I think is new, I'll go through each troubleshooting step because I hope some of them ...
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Why am I getting an “Access Denied” error for an external hard drive folder?
I know this question has been asked before, but I've tried multiple solutions and none worked.
I am trying to access a folder [Local Disk] on my external hard drive, but it says Access Denied.
I made ...
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Can't delete TEMP folder under windows, permission error. Windows server 2019
Operating System:
Windows server 2019
The problem:
One of our servers has a lot of accumulated files under c:\windows\temp folder.
Disk cleaner doesn't seem to delete those files - it always reports ...
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setting up ssh between two windows machines - permission denied
I am trying to establish ssh connection between two Windows machines. Here are things I did:
I installed OpenSSH on both machines, generated the ssh keys and placed the public key on the host machine ...
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NTFS Special permissions - List Folder/Read Data and Read Attributes
I applied ntfs special permission "List Folder/Read Data" on a folder that contains a simple text file, now i can open the folder and see the names of files and subdirectories inside the ...
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Can't change "owner permission" for lots of files on Windows 11
Windows 11. Dell Latitude 7430.
I'm trying to use the "dir/s/b" command in Command Prompt on all the root-directories in my "C:" drive so that I can get a summary of every file ...
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Why am I unable to set NTFS permissions on %ProgramFiles%?
Using an Admin user account on Windows Server 2019, I am trying to change NTFS permissions for a user account on %ProgramFiles%, %ProgramFiles(x86)%, and %WinDir%, but I get an access denied error ...
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Cannot delete a file on Windows 10. I am the administrator. Tried to follow many tutorials, but anything work
I installed a game into my computer. Tried to uninstall but it didnt worked. So I started manually deleting its files. I have deleted all but one file, that does not allow me to delete it.
This is ...
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How to actually restore stock Windows file permissions?
I recently suffered from some kind of MFT corruption that caused all permissions on my entire installation to be wiped. This made the disk "unaccessable" from another Windows installation ...
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