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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?
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Sorry for the delay in getting back to the topic. Dayjob has gotten rather busy, as sometimes happens this time of year.
In a domain environment, all of that would be working because all user identification would be done against the domain auth server. But in a workgroup environment, there is no auth server, and each machines checks only against its local data. So, if it can work in the local environment, it should be possible to have the same operation when a remote user logs into the local machine as a local user. I think of it as telepathic projection, and who's fingerprints and DNA are left at the scene that got past the ID checks.
To my knowledge, the only difference between a limited user and an admin user is the permission settings. It could also be that there is some magic bit that gets turned off with a limited user, and so some things just won't work without that magic bit being enabled. Like in *ix systems, root admin has the permissions, and the uid=0 as the magic bit. User without that uid=0, can't do anything that needs root authority regardless of what the permissons say. That could very well be what you're running into. I don't know if Windows has that equivalent uid=0, so some more research seems to be in order.