Steve N. said:
Clearing unused security descriptors using chkdsk /f on the NTFS volume
in question has often solved file/folder permission issues for me.
That is a nice cmd to know about, but do you think this is a
permissions issue?
I'm not really sure what all is covered by `security descriptors'
Does that set all share and security to some default values down the
line or what?
I may have done something similar in more awkward and round about
way.
I went to the top level of one drive where I run into problems.
At that level I choose the option in Security/advanced
[x] Replace permission entries on all child object with entries
shown here that apply to child objects.
I gave my user Full Control in the sharing tab and made shure
user had recursive control (all subdir and files)
Computer churned a few seconds while it ran down the tree resetting to
conform to those at the top level.
I then checked actual files and found that they did in fact have the
same permisions down the line.
I've also seen several anomolies under SP2 that effect network browsing.
You might want want to try rolling back to SP1 and then do a repair
install from an SP1 CD on the machine in question. Simply uninstalling
SP2 from Add/Remove Programs has not been sufficient in my experience.
There are SP2 registry remnants that remain even after "properly"
removing SP2 that effect networking.
I did something almost as drastic.
This OS began life as a pre sp/2 MS disc install. Later updated to
sp/2 thru ms updater.
I did back that out but as you mention that may not be as thorough.
I then did a repair reinstall but from a newer MS disc that has sp/2
natively. That is current state of OS.
Do you have any URLs to discussions about a similar problem and it
being related to sp2? Or maybe the Newsgroup name or whatever.
I'm a little slow to go that far becasue I have several adobe pieces
of software that start having re initialize demands after such a
change. That mean I spend a good while for each one calling adobe to
get them to active my sw again.
I had to activate the MS disc with sp/2 wih MS by telephone again too.
Each one of those can represent something like an hour or much more
counting busy signals and whatever else comes up.
At this point, having not seen any indications of a way to solve this
I'm contemplating a `from scratch' install. It really is crippling
timewise not to be able to access images or other files when needed.
But I can't shake the idea that some painstaking step by step
proceedure will unearth the problem.
OI)(CI)F