I almost thought I had found a solution...
I found out that while it is possible to take ownership of a file on a remote computer for the administrator, the file's owner will then be set to the administrator's SID on the
local rather than on the
remote computer. In other words, the owner will be set to a user not known on the machine where the file is located, which is not a good thing of course. I guess that for this reason, trying the same thing with a limited user account fails.
I also learned that while it is not possible to set the owner of a file on a remote computer to the administrator's remote SID, it is quite possible to set the file's owner to the remote computer's administrator
group. This brought me to the idea of creating a group for myself on the remote computer and setting the owner of the files in the backup data to my group rather than to myself as a limited user.
Unfortunately, this did not work and I don't know why. I created the group and made myself a member of it, but when I went to the dialog for changing the owner of a file on the remote computer, my group did not show up in the list of candidates for new ownership. I also tried creating the same group on the local computer, but this did not help either.
So how come I can change the owner of a file on a remote computer to a group that the administrator belongs to, but not to a group that a limited user belongs to?
