This isn’t my month – first it was the little network cards who lost their names, now an NT Server that thinks it’s too good to share with anybody but an administrator.
I just did a new install of NT Server with Service Pack 5 on a Dell PowerEdge1300 server. It is set up as a Primary Domain Controller and as it is a small (10 PC’s) network, it is the data server as well. I have a number of folders set up and shared for user home directories, data, etc.
Problem is that when I log on as an administrator, I get access any of these shares just fine, which figures. But if I log on with one of the user accounts, any attempt to access the share is refused giving the message “This request not accepted by the network. Try again later.”
All user and group definitions are good, and the permissions on all the shares, both share and NTFS security, are also right. But no access.
I’ve used a basically identical configuration before with zero trouble. Only real difference is that those were raw, from the MS CD’s installs. This one wouldn’t let me do that. Dell has some sort of proprietary drivers for the SCSI drives and you can only install NT using a preprogrammed install disk setup by their “Server Assistant” CD. It streamlines the whole DOS level part of the install so badly that the user has very little input.
Anybody got any thoughts on what might be going on here?