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Access needed to create shares

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by badfish

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Need to grant access to create shared folders on a Win2K server to a non-administrator. I have created a local group, added the global that the required user is a member of. I haved added this local group to the Local Security Policy "Create Pemanent Shared Objects". I have restarted the server. When the user goes to server via Management console, right clicks on SHARES, click "new file share" they get access denied. What other access is needed. Anyway to do this and not give the user administrative rights on the server ??? Thanks in advance!

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by badfish

Yes, this non-administrator can access the server via MMC. Gets "access denied" when they go to create "new file share"

by widgey woo

The only other thing that I can think of is that the user is a member of a group that has conflicting permissions. If the folder that is to be shared resides on an NTFS Volume, then the user must also have at least the READ permission for that folder
In A workgroup scenario, only the Administrators Group and the Power users group have this right by default, would adding the user to the power users group give them too much priviliges????

hope this helps

by badfish

Thank you for your answer. The user does not even get to the point of selecting a folder to share. They use MMC to connect to the server right-click on shares, select "new file share" and immediately get access is denied.

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