Dear Wise Ones,
I’m setting up Win Server 2003 for my school and am experiencing strange behavior when I logon my test accounts.
We have a single domain/server with security groups for Admins, Teachers and Students.
The file area of the server has 5 partitions:
1) “Apps” for my use only, for now
2) “Public” for staff to place documents that other staff and students may copy
3) “Teachers” for folders into which students will place completed assignments
4) “Users” holding each user’s individual directory
5) “Utils” for my use only
I’ve set up permissions on the partitions so that Students can
a] read but not write to Public
b] read the top level of Teachers (but not write) so that they can find a particular teacher’s folder in which they should be placing their work
c] write to but not read the individual teacher directories in Teachers so that they can deliver their work without seeing or messing with anybody else’s work
This seems simple enough and everything works great the first time I logon a test student account from a workstation. The second time I logon, however, the Teacher partition fails to show up in the student account. The third time I try it, the Public partition fails to show up.
The test account I have for the Teachers security group does not have these restrictions and works fine so far.
I’m testing this from a pretty old workstation, a Dell Latitude C610 running Win XPsp2.
Many thanks to anyone who can clue me in to what I’m doing wrong here.
Yours in need and gratitude,
Lev in Brooklyn
