Quaotas, File Ownership

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Dave

I am moving from Novell Netware to Windows server. In
Netware I can see who put a file on the server. But I can
not figure out how to do that in windows. In that, what I
mean is that in Netware if I copy, move or even change a
file, I become the "owner" of that file. The space for it
also comes out of my "quota". I can see who the owner of
a file is in Windows server, but it seems that it only
shows the originator of that file. If I create a file and
someone else moves it or even edits it, the owner still
shows as me. Is there a way to see who the last person to
touch, or alter, the file was? I need to know this in
tracking down the originator of a virus we had last week.

On a similar note, users are always butting heads with
disk space limitations (quotas) and of course they always
swear that they have hardly anything saved on the server.
In Netware I could run a routine that would show them
every file and folder they owned (came out of there
allotment) on the server. Is there a way I can do this on
a Windows server?
 
1. In a typical system, it is the creator of a file who owns
it. Through the shell or through the takeown command
another user can claim ownership. The quota is then
charged to the new owner. The last writer, or person
who moved the file is never marked as the owner.
2. You can enable auditing on some/all files for various
operations, but then you'd have to wade through all of
the allowed modifications to files in order to find the
small number of odd ones.
3. I know of no program for Windows 2000. For XP and
Windows 2003 Server, the fsutil command can be used
to find files owned by a particular person.
 
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