I'm no expert on this, but I run the NT server here at work so I'm at least partly qualified.

You possibly can't view permissions because you don't have permissions To take ownership (win2k) right click -> Security Tab -> Advanced button -> Owner Tab.

The owner will probably show up as a big number (the ID) since the Win2k install will not know about it. Select your Win2k Admin user and apply and you should be right.

And yes Linux NTFS won't give a damn about file permissions if you have to go to that extreme.