This tool has helped me out a ton. Use the setowner action then sometimes you have to play with it. One method after using setowner is to
right click on the folder > properties > security tab > advanced > owner tab > other users or groups > even if its there type administrator > check replace owner on subdirectories > ok out of it all
right click on the folder > properties > security tab > add whatever permissions you want > click advanced > replace permissions on child objects
SUBINACL
Display or modify Access Control Entries (ACEs) for file and folder Permissions, Ownership and Domain.
Access Control Lists apply only to files stored on an NTFS formatted drive, each ACL determines which users (or groups of users) can read or edit the file. When a new file is created it normally inherits ACL's from the folder where it was created.
Syntax
SUBINACL [/noverbose] /object_type object_name [/action=parameter] [/help]
Key
object_type: service e.g. /service Messenger \\ServerName\Messenger
keyreg e.g. /keyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software
/keyreg \\Srv\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\KeyPath
file e.g. /file *.obj /file c:\test.txt
/file \\ServerName\Share\Path
subdirectories manipulate files in specified directory and all subdirectories
object_name : This will vary according to the object_type - see the examples above
action : setowner=owner
will change the owner of the object e.g. /setowner=MyDomain\Administrators
replace=SamName\OldAccount=DomainName\New_Account
will replace all ACE (Audit and Permissions) in the object
e.g. /replace=MyOldDomain\Finance=NEWDOM\Finance
changedomain=OldDomainName=NewDomainName
will replace all ACEs with a Sid from OldDomainName
with the equivalent Sid found in NewSamServer
e.g. /changedomain=MyOldDomain=NEWDOMAIN
This option requires a trust relationship with the server containing the object. Examples:
subinacl can do everything that cacls and xcacls can do and more besides.
List permissions to log file:
subinacl /noverbose /nostatistic /outputlog=my.log /subdirectories "C:\Program Files\My Folder" /display
Restore Permissions:
subinacl /nostatistic /playfile my.log
Change owner :
subinacl /file C:\demofile.doc /setowner=MYDOMAIN\BillG
Bugs
Running subinacl against a subfolder, as in the example above will affect just that folder and it's contents. However if you run subinacl against a folder in the root of the drive it will scan the entire drive for folders matching that name (which can take some time).
e.g.
subinacl /subdirectories "C:\Spud"
Will also match
C:\Program Files\Spud
C:\Documents and Settings\Spud etc
