Problems with user accounts/security settings

[Nick Moore]

For some reason any new user that is created cannot modify/change and save
files on a network drive.

I created a new user with the exact same rights as other users in her
department. She also has the same drive mappings (with exception her "home"
directory). Some network shares she can write to, others she can't. She is
a member of a group that has 'Read, Read & Execute and List' rights. Her
user has 'Full Control" on the folder.

She's trying to modify office documents and they all open 'read-only' (she
can't even modify .txt files). Now, I tried making her a member of
Administrators and it worked. I took her out and it didn't work.
Something's not right here if everyone else has been using the same rights
for a very long time and now I can't create a user that can write to the
network shares.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

-Nick

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Nick,

I am not sure that I follow. You have set up both NTFS and Share
permissions based on group membership ( a good way to do things ) and then -
on top of that - give the individual user account object full control to the
folder. I might want to rethink this. Please excuse me if I am reading
this incorrectly.

Have you taken a look at the folder Share and NTFS permissions? Have you
written them both down? Have you then gone to her user account object in
the ADUC and verified that she is a member of the appropriate groups ( or
that the groups of which she is a member are members of the appropriate
local groups )? Are you using a departmental group schematics? Meaning,
that if she is in the Accounting department she is a member of the
GSG_Accounting group, which has either been made a member of a local group
to which the appropriate NTFS and Share permissions are applied or has the
appropriate permissions itself?

What happens if you create another user in a different department?

You might want to take a look at cacls or xcacls to help you with this if
you have a ton of folders....

HTH,

Cary