I just set up a striped drive array, and the fault tolerance thing makes me want to keep certain files on another computer in the network. I'd like to be able to just map the drive and get anything I need off of it, except for it will only let me go 2 folders deep. Once I try to go deeper, I get the "access is denied" message. Is this a security design thing, or is there something more I need to do, other than share out the drive on the other computer??
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That probably means that the account you are mapping as does not have permissions to that folder. Are you using an administrator account? Or the account for the user folder?
You are accessing the drive enough to get to Documents and Settings, the user folder is where you are missing permissions for the user you are logged in as.
I'm on a small home network. All the machines (in question) are WXP Pro. I am set up as admin for all. All drives are NTFS. I can easily share the individual folders and access the data I'm after, but it's messy. I'm hard-headed and decided that I just want the one drive showing. So that's why I'm taking trouble to look into this instead of being happy sharing the specific folders. And d_dunkin, I am in my account with admin privleges, not in the administrator account, if that makes a difference...
Does your account or the administrators group have permissions to the folder you are trying to access? That is really the key here.
Login locally to the machine, right-click the folder you are trying to access over the share, and verify your account, or the administrators group have access to that folder.
Try it like this. "c$"
If you truly are admin on the local machine, the root of the drive doesn't need to be shared for you to access it remotely.
\\{servername}\c$\document
If you still get "access denied."...your username is not in the local administrators group on that machine. Each workgrouped machine has a user list on it, you would need to create your username with the your exact same password and add it to the administrators group.
What I ended up doing was keeping simple file sharing enabled. I shared each folder that I needed to access (and the 2 below it) and just deleted all the icons in my network places. I then was able to go wherever i needed in the mapped drive. without the clutter of all the shared file icons. Xuserx2000, I had already resolved the issue by the time you had commented. Thanks to all...
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by: PaulRKruegerPosted on 2006-10-09 at 18:50:22ID: 17695200
Sounds like you need to push the proper NTFS permissions down the folder tree. If the entire structure should have the same permissions, right-click the folder (from your server) and go to properties, security, grant the access you want, click advanced, check "replace permission entries on all child..." click apply and try it again.
If you don't want to push the permissions of the top folder down the entire tree you can have fun with the CACLS command. It will traverse the folders and files granting/modifying permissions without replacing the others.