rocketman331

I've never had an issue with permissions before until now. This is not the best security practice but its a file server in my home that my room-mates use to back up to.

I enabled the guest account and I am sharing 3 hards-drives: Media A, B, C.
They all have the same permissions with giving the guest account all read/write/modify.

When I use my XP machine and run \\tehsource\Media B or Media C I can access all of the subfolders and files.

However, when I run \\tehsource\Media A I can see the subfolders but my access is denied to open the subfolders. I am completely lost as I've checked and rechecked policies and I've never had this happen before until now.

Any ideas?

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Raptors06

Just a thought, but were you not using AD for the sharing? Can you open the subfolders using another Admin account through any of the other computers (whether S03 or XP)?

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rocketman331

I actually found the problem. I set the share permissions/security settings with the "File Manager" but the drive in question didn't get the NTFS permissions changed. Hence why I could detect the drive on the network but not access shares.

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DigitalPhreak

Precisely. In fact, it is a best practice to give "everyone" "full control" on the share permission and use the NTFS permission to give access to who and what you chose.

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rocketman331

Ya it's been an interesting couple of weeks. They've moved from a lab personnel supervisor to a systems admin. I've been getting hands on training with OS X server and Server 2003 plus our Ubuntu lab servers. I'm not too impressed with X server but who knows maybe one day we'll get the happy family to play nice. It's a learning experience and one that I truly enjoy. Thanks for all of the help.

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DigitalPhreak

I can say that for central administration nothng out there beats M$.

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