Recieve "windows cannot access the specified device path or file" as the administrator and owner : Microsoft, Windows, XP, 2003 Server, Installed on a networked computer with a roaming profile, Windows cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

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Recieve "windows cannot access the specified device path or file" as the administrator and owner

Asked by mdoten in Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Operating System

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, 2003 Server, Installed on a networked computer with a roaming profile, Windows cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

I'm using a Windows XP SP2 computer on a network. We use roaming user profiles for staff to allow use on different comptuers. I recently haven't been able to open any exe, microsoft acess, msi and other files that our stored on the network. When I attempt to run them I recieve this error message:

windows cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to the item

This is concerning to me because I created some of the files, am the administrator/owner of the files and I can however copy them to my desktop and then run them from there no problem. Any ideas on what could have happened and how to fix this?

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Recieve "windows cannot access the specified device path or file" as the administrator and owner

Asked by mdoten in Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP Operating System

Tags: Microsoft, Windows, XP, 2003 Server, Installed on a networked computer with a roaming profile, Windows cannot access the specified device path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

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