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by david_grant

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I copied an existing group and renamed that group. I then removed existing members from the new group and added new members to that group. I assigned the group to the permissions for the particular drive (folder). Users in the group are unable tomap (access) the drive even though the group has full rights to that drive. Why is NT not authenticating users in the new group and granting the appropriate access to them?

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by avachon

Hi, have all members of the group logged off and logged back on? The access control list (ACL) per user may not yet be updated.

by curious_george

Firstly, how did you rename the group, NT does not allow that operation natively, however, I am aware the there is a freeware exe that does this(I use it), I just want to make sure that I am understanding your description correctly.

In the first line above, which group did you rename, the original or the copy?
Why would you rename either group or do you mean that you simply made a copy with a different name than the original group name?

Did you remember to add access to both NTFS ACLs and to the Share ACL?

Did you push the new ACL down through the folder?

by curious_george

Answer #1 is both correct and incorrect.
Users need to logoff and back on for Global Domain group tokens, but do not need to do so for local server groups(they only need to break their connection to the given server). You did not mention which scenario you are describing.

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