Odd file access problem

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?

.

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