Here's Hoping someone out here has run into this and might have found a solution.
(Searched the forum posts for prior similar issues with no success).
Here's the problem - A Win 2000 Server dedicated to 2 very simple databases and serving as data storage for misc files suddenly had 'permissions' altered for a number of files on D: Drive. Files normally easily accessible became altered to where no user or Admin could access the files (and some folders also) to open/view/ or change in any way.
Server has 2 drives - C: has system/programs, D: is the affected drive with only data files.
This happened during a business work day, at a time when only a few users were accessing the server based files.
The server is behind a solid firewall. The users were not capable making alterations or creating this problem. A thorough check of the server drives show no viral infections or processes that were holding the files 'open'.
Attempts to reset permissions either individually or by reseting and repropagating permissions from parent to child, have NOT worked. The files/directories with the corrupted permissions do not allow any attempts to changing their permissions settings.
Thankfully the corrupted files are not critical database files. Most are databases support files/report files/linking files that can be recreated, or are simple spreadsheets, txt files etc. that can also be recreated.
There is no common thread or connection between the affected files...
Files cannot be move/deleted/renamed also (natch...)
Anyone ever see this??? Anyone have any solutions/ideas to resolve this?
There are enough files to recreate that 'recovery' is preferred.
Recovered files from backup are okay, but cannot overwrite the bad ones in the appropriate directories - using the recovered files in new directories would mean completely remapping the databases - a HUGE hassle!
At this point the only real solution in sight is to format the D: drive and reinstall good files from backup --- IF WIN2K will let me (I've gone thru DOS and tried to remove the affected files - no success thanks to the tight security even in DOS).
HELP!
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