Thanks Jimmy, but alas it also failed to do the job. Dragos I believe that these are not system folders at all as they are reproduced in several instances, some of those instances being where they are sixth level sub-folders. What I am facing is trying to delete these empty directories (at least I believe that they're empty), however I am unable to find out much as NTFS permissions are not allowed to be changed, the directory itself cannot be accessed even if it's a sub-directory and yes I have tried to push the permissions down from the parent directory so that I might take ownership and have rights. The directories that I cannot access are always named after ports; i.e. com1, com2, lpt1. I am still searching. If anyone else has the answer I would greatly appreciate it, and if I find the answer I will share with everyone. Thanks for all the advice so far. -----Original Message----- From: BAIRD Dion E * DAS DOIT Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:56 PM To: crime@private Cc: BLACK Dan * DAS DOIT Subject: Enlighten Me Although well versed in some of the different exploits in MS, I need to be educated a little here. I have an FTP server that one of the other techs had opened up to anonymous access, someone stored a bunch of crap on the c:\inetpub\ftproot\.. directory. I have gotten all of the directories and files removed except for the directories called com1, com2 and lpt1. The directories have no short name using the dir/x switch, and they can also not be deleted using rd /s and then the top level directory. How do I get rid of these things? Some insight please. Thank you for your help in advance. Dion E. Baird Network Engineer DAS Office of IT (503) 932-0861 dion.e.baird@private <mailto:dion.e.baird@private>
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