puzzle?

23 Mar 2005 10:42 PM

paul kramer

This is a strange one I think:
We have a "system volume information" folder in the root of our drives, the
function of it doesn't matter here (dfs pointers, junctions etc). Oké, this
folder has access for the SYSTEM account only, so even an administrator
can't access it. You can't copy anything to it either.

Now try this: open a admin share to the partition (C$), then drag any folder
to it ( I did it by accident). So my divine 5 G folder disappeared in the
black hole of the "system volume info".

Off course I can take ownership to get my folder back, but WHY can a user
drag a folder to something where he has NO rights? Very special folder
indeed.

anybody with ideas??

Paul.

23 Mar 2005 11:06 PM

Chris M

"paul kramer" <pkram***@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
news:e5CZWm$LFHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> This is a strange one I think:
> We have a "system volume information" folder in the root of our drives,
> the function of it doesn't matter here (dfs pointers, junctions etc). Oké,
> this folder has access for the SYSTEM account only, so even an
> administrator can't access it. You can't copy anything to it either.
>
> Now try this: open a admin share to the partition (C$), then drag any
> folder to it ( I did it by accident). So my divine 5 G folder disappeared
> in the black hole of the "system volume info".

I have no idea why it's possible, but I tried it and it works. Very
strange...