Today, while various employees were accessing the shared excel files located on our fileserver, I was fooling with user permissions on the server. However, everyone was using the excel files as the administrator. I changed the password to the administrator account (I know i shouldn’t have) while these documents were still open on employees’ desktops.
Since, the employees are unable to get into the directories in which they were working. So now I am actually sitting in front of the file server (Windows Server 2003) and trying to get into those directories, and it tells me that “Access is Denied”. Also, when i hover the mouse over the folder it says “Folder Empty”. The folders definitely should not be empty…and I am logged into the server as administrator.
Is it possible that me changing the administrator account password (with which the employees were accessing files in particular directories) somehow could have corrupted these folders entirely?
I realized there is no kind of system restore feature in Server 03…so do I have any other options?
I need help badly as there is a lot of work at stake right now and a lot of angered employees.