In local Admin group but still Acess Denied.
Posted by admin on Jul 8th, 2006
I am a Domain Admin on our Network which is in the Local Administrators group on the Vista PC. I'm still getting used to Vista but I would think since I am in the Local Admin group I shouldn't be getting Acess Denied in different areas. One in particular is I need to place a dll in the system32 folder and it tells me access is denied. I frequently come across Access Denied evn when I say Run As Administrator. In this case I ran Windows Explorer as Administrator and tried to copy the file to sytem32 and received the error. Any help or explanation is appreciated. I am hoping I do not have to log off and on as local admin whenever I need to do this. Thanks in advance for any help. Dawn
Jul 12th, 2006 at 04:33 pm
Hello,When you attempt to copy a file to system32 (or any other adminprotected folder) inside explorer, you should receive the message "You'll need to provide administrator permission to copy to this folder". Clicking Continue should prompt you via UAC ("Windows needs your permission to continue") and then the operation should succeed.What behavior are you seeing?Also, you generally cannot run windows explorer "as administrator" it will appear to be running as administrator, but will actually not be. This shouldn't affect what explorer can do, however, as it should always prompt for admin permission when needed.As for working with files in other programs besides Windows Explorer, you will need to run these as administrator in order to use them to modify files that only administrators can modify.Logging in as a local administrator should not be necessary, since you are a member of the administrators group.I should also point out that there are some files on your system that, by default, only the Windows Installer/Update service(s) can modify. Nobody else, not even the system, can modify these files. These files include system files inside the System32 folder (but this protection does not apply to adding files to this folder; only modifying system files that are already there).If you need to modify a system file in this folder, you should follow these steps:1 Take ownership of the file you need to modify 2 Grant yourself the desired permission (usually full control) 3 Edit the file 4 If you did not delete the file, remove the permission you added JB Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/UserWindows Vista Support Faq jimmah.com/vista/
Jul 16th, 2006 at 07:26 pm
On Mar 11, 9:33 am, "Jimmy Brush" wrote: When I tried to copy a dll to the system32 folder (this file was being added to the directory no previous version was there) I just got Access Denied. No prompt asking me to provide admin info. I also got access denied when trying to view a folder. On one machine I did an upgrade from XP to see how things worked. It left the Documents and Settings folder out there and I wanted to view it. Access Denied. And on a fresh install I had the Acess Denied on System32 folder. I did get around it by running the command prompt as admin and doing a copy. It just seems odd since I am a Domain Admin I would have to do this. I verified I was part of the local admin group. I like the added security but a little frustating to be denied acess totally. Thanks for explaining the differences more in depth. Maybe I just need to get used to it. Just still unsure why it did not prompt me and just denied me. Thanks again.Dawn