How to map a drive that has special permissions?

I forgot it. Here it is...

Ok, I assume you've double and triple checked the permissions on the share itself, and by "it works" you mean the same users can access it via UNC paths or the "Map Network Drive" on the Tools menu of "My Computer"?

I'm a bit off my main field here, but I'll at least give my suggestions:

I'm a bit surprised it works without the "Read Permissions" rights. My suggestion would be enabling this first, then if that doesn't work give it full rights and see if that works, and then removing rights one by one to see which one kills the logon-script.

Also, have you tried running the logon-script from a DOS prompt to see what errors are reported?

Thanks

Share permissions are on full read and write and set to everyone.

By "it works" I mean the permissions work as planned on normal folders.

I can only recommend posting the error messages from the script - without knowing the errors you get helping you will be difficult. Also some "When I type \\servername\share in explorer on a remote computer it works, map network drive works, but net use x: \\servername\share gives the following error:" -type examples would be great. The term "normal folders" tells me little, for all I know it could be in your local Explorer. Any other background details can also be of help - domain membership? workgroup? Any other specialties on this server? What Windows Server version is it running?

On the specified folder can you give list and read permissions and then run the logon script.

The reason I have hesitated to post the error message is because it's in Swedish and I'm not sure how it translates into the English version, but anyway, it goes something like this "The stated network device is no longer available".

Just as a test, if I add the permission "Everyone" with full control, the error message disappears.

mboppe

No problem turning on read permissions but the only "List" optionm I see there is "List folder / read data" which is not what I want to happen.

I allowed "Read Permissions" and I allowed "List folder / read data" and it still won't map.

Kentern

I'll try to be as specific as you want. This scenario is a test that illustrates what I mean by "permissions work as planned on normal folders" and  "it works".

1. On a file server. Admin creates folder A and makes Folder A a share. Share permissions are set to "everyone, full control". Security permissions of folder A are set to "modify" for the user group.
    
2. Nested inside Folder A, admin creates subfolder B. and sets special permissions on subfolder "B" to allow "create files / write data", and allow "create folders and append data" and "Read Permissions"
    
3. "Folder A" is mapped as a network drive. This works fine, and when the user looks inside it, the user can see folder B. The user can drag and drop files into folder B, but cannot look inside it, or change existing data inside it. This is what I mean by "permissions work as planned on normal folders" and  "it works". 

However, this folder A and folder B structure is not what I want. I just want Folder A, with permissions set to allow "create files / write data", and allow "create folders and append data" and "Read Permissions". The issue is that it does not appear to be possible to map a folder with such permissions, because it the log on script that tries to map the drive returns the error "The stated network name is no longer available".

I've been going through the permissions, one by one, and only when I turn on traverse folder, execute data, will the folder maps. But now the user can traverse the folder and see what's in there, which is not what I wanted...

A folder set with these permissions cannot be mapped, which is stupid.

Since there is no answer to this I'm thinking of deleting the question....

Thats weird it might not be to do with the permissions.can you remove the user group and just a give a single user the required permissions.

Another possible solution since these exact permissions are very important to you, and I suspect the problem is common Windows functionality (i.e there might not be a good solution for this using Windows and Explorer): Have you considered using FTP to achieve your goals? There are plenty of free FTP servers, and utilities to map FTP sites to folders.

A Google search for "map ftp folder as drive" gives a lot of alternatives. I've never tried this in your exact scenario, but we do use a dump folder on our FTP which enables guests to dump files that only our internal users can see.

Ha en strålande dag.

FTP running locally could be an idea - thanks for the suggestion.