I had the same problem once when I had to move roaming profiles to a new server. Here's what I did. Took ownership and gave admins full control. Moved the profiles. Used SUBINACL to give ownership back to the user. Depending on your environment, you may not need to do all this work. There is a GPO setting that says "Don't check for ownership of roaming profiles". If you set this, you can retain ownership and it will still work. You can download subinacl from M$. Steve Raffensberger Sovereign Bank Office Automation Group Mail Stop 10-411-NS1 1125 Berkshire Blvd. Wyomissing, PA 19610 Email: sraffens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Mann Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:19 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Add administrator to existing roaming profiles I have about a dozen users profiles that got created before I turned on the GPO option to give administrators access to user's profiles. I tried to use xcacls to add administrators to these profiles but had no luck. Is there any way to do this without needing the users password to cacls/xcacls as the user? I could take over ownership, but then I'm not sure how I'd give it back to the user. This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete or destroy the message. Thank you.