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March 2, 2006 at 09:00 PM
kingofthenerds

Home Folder Security

by kingofthenerds . Updated 20 years, 3 months ago

Hi All,

I have a Windows 2003 Server and I am running Clients with Mandatory Profiles so I setup a Group Policy through Active Directory to Redirect their My Documents folder to their home directory.

This has all worked fine except for the fact that without knowing I had the checkbox ticked “Grant the user exclusive rights to My Documents”.

I have now realised that was a big mistake. Now logged in on the server as Administrator I can’t access users My Documents in their home directory.

On the security Tab the only people with rights to look in the folder and modify etc is the Owner and SYSTEM.

Administrators is not there. This makes me quite angry because why on earth would you setup home folders on a server and then lock the server from accessing them.

Anyway, is there anyone who can give me some magical advice that allows me from the top folder of the share, add administrators to the security tab with full access while leaving the owner of each folder untouched, and while still restricting access for everyone else except the administrator group, and the owner.

I hope someone else has had this problem.

Thanks All

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