Odd network security problem

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nicowyow

Hi all,

I installed an additional domain controller on our network today. Our
network was Windows 2003, I upgraded it to windows 2003 R2 for the new
controller.

I encounter a strange problem. When I try to run an executable from the
network on that machine I get the following error:
"windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not
have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

I can open any other file (.doc, .txt and so on) where the same
security settings are in place.

Which is odd, because I'm logged in as the domain admin. What makes it
more odd, I can copy it and run it. What makes it even more odd is that
I can run it from the network using cmd.exe.....

So I concluded this is some security measure in explorer.exe for
Windows 2003 R2 domain controllers (since I dont have the problem on
another R2 machine (terminal server).

I'm not sure what to do next, I need to fix this since I realy need to
acces some executables on the network.

Any thoughts on this?
 
Hi,

I was having trouble with the same problem for more than two days. It
seems that you have to add the server you are connecting to in either
trusted sites or local intranet under the security tab in internet
explorer. I have read about the same behaviour using terminal server,
but I tested this directly on the PC. I don't know if this changed with
a Microsoft Update being applied, but the problem is that you cannot
run anything from a network share even if you are part of the domain
admin group. Only the local administrator can do this.

So if you want to allow exes being run on folder shared on
"fileserver", you just add file:\\fileserver to your trusted sites
list. The next thing I would like to know is how to disable this
feature for pc's on your local network. But for now this will have to
do.

Here is a similar problem.
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1305338&page=1

Hope this helps.
 
This is the correct fix to this
It all points back to IE 7 Trusted Sites

Also if you have problems with DCPromo it is because the server is not
trusting itself.

Cheers
 
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