Re: user cannot access shares

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNoSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 10/25/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:01:24 -0700

On another hand, that particular "issue" of share vs filesystem
permissions is and has been fundemental for so long, it may not
even be mentioned in the cert exams any more, dropped (?) when
there was interest in putting some teeth/meaning into them. 

-- 
Roger
"Larry Smith" <no_spam@_nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:eVdZqHM2FHA.612@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> When you use remote desktop into the server, what does "click my way
>> through to these shares" mean? I'm going to assume that you're access
>> them through Explorer locally rather than using \\computer\share\folder
>> in the RDP session correct?
>> If so, the answer is easy. You've modified the NTFS permissions but the
>> share permissions are still read only.
>> BTW - I'd fire your sysadmin and get another if he's unable to figure
>> this out.
>
> Come on. If all the people that were incompetent in this field were to be 
> fired there'd be few people left (well, may not be a bad idea actually). 
> Does this particular issue qualify as incompetent however? LAN Manager 
> sessions (SMB) and Windows authentication in general are very poorly 
> documented (and frequently complicated). An "access denied" error is one 
> of the most frequently encountered problems and few people really know how 
> to deal with it.
>
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Adare
>> MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
>> http://www.identit.ca/blogs/paul/
>> "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
>> survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
>> computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
>> labeled as such."
>> Ray Shea
>
>

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