Network Mapped Drive sharing access control

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I have 3 Windows 2000 servers, S1, S3 and S8. S1 and S3
are setup as web servers, and S8 is a fileserver. On S8, I
have created a shared folder, Projects, that both S1 and
S3 need to access. On S1 and S3, I created a mapped drive
to this shared folder.

On S1, the web server is able to access the file server
shared folder with server unintended.

On S3, the web server gives File Not Found when user
clicks on the links to retrieve files in the shared
folder. When I logon to S3, it will ask me to enter a
password for the Shared even I already setup the login
user and password for the mapped drive. After I type in
the password to complete the login process, S3 is able to
retrieve the files in the shared folder. If I log off, S3
will not be able to retrieve the files.

I compareded the Access Control Settings for the shared
folder on S1 and S3.

S1 says the Current Owner is Administrators (S1
\Administrators)

S3 says the Current Owner is Administrators (S8
\Administrators). When I click on one of the choices in
the Change Owner To box to Adminstrator (S3
\Administrator), I get following Security Error.

Unable to set new owner on Projects on S8 (I
This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this
object.


I tried setting up a batch file with following commands in
it.

net stop webserver
net use I: \\S8\Projects
net start webserver

I also setup a scheduled task to run this batch file at
each time computer starts. It still does not work.

Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated.

....Rottie
 
Rottie said:
I have 3 Windows 2000 servers, S1, S3 and S8. S1 and S3
are setup as web servers, and S8 is a fileserver. On S8, I
have created a shared folder, Projects, that both S1 and
S3 need to access. On S1 and S3, I created a mapped drive
to this shared folder.

On S1, the web server is able to access the file server
shared folder with server unintended.

On S3, the web server gives File Not Found when user
clicks on the links to retrieve files in the shared
folder. When I logon to S3, it will ask me to enter a
password for the Shared even I already setup the login
user and password for the mapped drive. After I type in
the password to complete the login process, S3 is able to
retrieve the files in the shared folder. If I log off, S3
will not be able to retrieve the files.

I compareded the Access Control Settings for the shared
folder on S1 and S3.

S1 says the Current Owner is Administrators (S1
\Administrators)

S3 says the Current Owner is Administrators (S8
\Administrators). When I click on one of the choices in
the Change Owner To box to Adminstrator (S3
\Administrator), I get following Security Error.

Unable to set new owner on Projects on S8 (I
This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this
object.


I tried setting up a batch file with following commands in
it.

net stop webserver
net use I: \\S8\Projects
net start webserver

I also setup a scheduled task to run this batch file at
each time computer starts. It still does not work.

Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated.

...Rottie

You should not use a mapped drive, but instead use UNC path. When you log
off from the server, the mapping is released.


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