Odd file access problem

[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?

 

[Danny Sanders]

"windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not

have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

Check the event viewers on each machine around the time this happened.

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).

Win 2k3 R2 is the exact same OS as Win 2k3 SP1. It just has some feature
upgrades and I don't think any of those feature upgrades have anything to do
with explorer.

hth
DDS

 

[Karl Levinson, mvp]

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."

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).

any thoughts on this?

Some antivirus programs such as McAfee Virusscan have a feature that can do
this... any chance it's the antivirus program on the client or maybe the
server?

 

[nicowyow]

I installed an additional domain controller on our network today. Our

Some antivirus programs such as McAfee Virusscan have a feature that can do
this... any chance it's the antivirus program on the client or maybe the
server?

Thanks for the response.

The server is not running any anti-virus, fresh install right out of
the box. I tried to access executables on some other computers which
don't have anti-virus, still no luck.

I logged file access and there are no problems on the file server. no
errors are logged at the client.

 

[nicowyow]

Ha, solved it. Had to turn off enhanced IE security...

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