2003 server file rights

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I have a Windows 2003 member server in my Windows 2000 domain. I am having a
problem assigning rights on the 2003 server. I created a group on one of my
Windows 2000 controllers, assigned the group rights to a shared folder on the
Windows 2003 server but they don't get access to the folder. This is pretty
straight forward stuff but I just can't see why they don't get access. There
have been some some other curious rights issues on that server. I do not have
Windows 2003 training but it looks pretty much like 2000 from what I can see.
I've given enough time for propagation if thats what's needed.

Any ideas why this might be failing.
 
Mike,

Just a thought: are you giving both SHARE and NTFS permissions? It is a
common mistake ( not saying that you are making it, just have seen it a
lot! ) that people give just the NTFS or just the SHARE permissions, but not
both.

Also, if you created the group ( what kind of group is it?) and then created
the shared folder and then assigned the permissions ( both of them! ) and
the users were not already a member of that group then they will have to log
off and then back on.....the whole security token thing comes into play
here.

WIN2003 does set significantly different default permissions ( example, the
EVERYBODY group now has just read permissions in WIN2003 whereas it used to
have full control in WIN2000...... ).

Is there an explicit 'DENY' anywhere in the directory structure?

Does this help?

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Cary W. Shultz
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Cary, a well written response and I see you're up late...

One of my first thoughts was an implicit deny somewhere possibly with
another group membership however I believe I've pretty much serched that out.
The group is a security group.

As for the default permissions in 2003, it's about time, it took me a lot of
time setting my 2000 servers with what 2003 now does by default. I come from
a Novell background.

I've been stung by the security token thing in the past, again I came from a
Novell background. With that in mind you point out one of the obvious, NTFS
plus share rights. Sometimes the most obvious is the most difficult to see. I
will review in the morning and let you know.

Again thanks for your response, very professional...
 
Cary, You were right on!! I failed to set the share permissions
correctly.Shame on me, I won't get stung by that one again.
 
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