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by joe donahue 1 view

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I'm having a problem accessing the some of the shared user folders on my win 2ooo server. For instance I just created a user and tried to set up as a mandatory account, however at the server I open the shared user folder but when I try to open a user folder, I get an error message:
Servername/users/username is not accessible' Access denied. I notice that I can access any accounts created prior to upgrading to Win2k from NT 4.0 Please Help

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by mike jones

It sounds like the users folders are being created with only the users having permissions.

You should be able to take control by selecting the particular folder at the \\servername\users and resetting the permissions.

By default however, both administrator and the user should have full control on a Windows 2000 server, on a NT4 server, only the user used to have full control and you used to have to add administrator permissions.

When you create the account, I think you need to use the %username% variable in the home drive path otherwise it doesn't create the home drive correctly.

Eg: \\servername\sharename\%username%

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