Need Help: Unable to create folder on shared drive

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John Bek

Would greatly appreciate assistance as this is becoming
very frustrating...

I'm running a home network, all W2K on NTFS. I've defined
shared drives & folders and have permissions defined to
allow full control for a specific profile that has
administrative rights.

Yet, I am unable to create a new folder or copy
folders/files into a shared directory while signed on with
this admin profile from another machine.

To be clear: Admin A is on Machine A trying to copy
files/folders from Machine A to Machine B into a shared
folder on Machine B. Admin A has admin rights on Machine B.

On attempts to copy files from Machine A into the shared
folder on Machine B, I get the message: "Cannot copy
(filename):Access denied Make sure the disk is not full
or write-protected and that the file is not currently in
use"

On attempts to create a new folder on Machine B from
Machine A, I get the message "Unable to create the
folder 'New Folder' Access is Denied"

Wizdom would be VERY MUCH appreciated!!

Thanks,

JB
 
First double check that you are indeed an administrator on the other machine
[net user username, will tell group membership]. While connected to another
machine you can go into Computer Management/shared folders/sessions to see
how you are being authenticated. If you have the guest account enabled on
that machine, you are probably authenitcating as the guest. The other thing
to check is that you have proper share/ntfs permissions on the computer. An
administrator may not always have permissions to a folder/file, however in a
default installation they can take ownerhip which will give them the power
to change permissions to grant themselves access. You would also need to
check share permissions which are spearate from ntfs permssions and the
least permissive of the two will apply to a network connection. --- Steve
 
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