Re: Strange user security issues...
From: Robert Cowling (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/26/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 06:40:11 -0700
Their imported 'support' is particularly interesting... I
had one guy just hang up on me...
The were insisting that it was a Windows issue... The buck
does not stop I guess...
>-----Original Message-----
>I think that may an issue particular to QuickBooks. You
may want to try and
>contact them, see if they have an FAQ on their website or
see if they have a
>newsgroup or other forum. I can't think of anything in
W2K operating system
>that would cause that. --- Steve
>
>"Robert Cowling" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:1226d01c44285$0ea73820$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have a directory on the server and gave a usergroup
full
>> control over it.
>>
>> When users in the group login, they can see the files in
>> the directory. That's as designed, obviously... What the
>> problem is is that only one person can use that file at
a
>> time. The application is QuickBooks. The error is that
the
>> file is nolonger a QuickBooks datafile or is damaged.
>>
>> Now, here is the strange part: If the Administrator logs
>> in and then accesses the file through QuickBooks, then
>> other users can access the file at the same time. It
>> appears that the security/privledges are reset overnight
>> because the next day, users are left with only one
person
>> being able to access the file.
>>
>> I read about resetting the GPO object, but it looks
messy
>> and I don't want to get involved in something that could
>> kill this server. It's a production server.
>>
>> What is going on? Is there some setting in the active
>> directory that would control this? How do I fix it? We
>> have other apps on the server that access files
>> concurrently with no problems...
>>
>> HELP!!! This is getting old...
>>
>> Thank you for any assistance.
>>
>> Server is Windows 2000 server w/sp4
>> Clients are all Windows 2000 Pro w/sp4.
>>
>> Let me know if you need any other info.
>>
>> Thanks...
>
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