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I moved the Users Shared Folders to another drive and now it's not working

I stupidly moved the Users Shared Folders to another dive in my server, I made the share permissions EXACTLY how it was originally (in fact I copied them from another server also, so I know theyre correct), however now every time I create a user I receive an error message.

Is there a registry entry I need to modify?

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Carl.
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You Have modified the sharing permissions. Did you verify Security permissions too. Final permissions are always most restrictive so verify Security permissions too.
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Yes I have but the Users Shared Folders directory is on another drive now rather than the C: drive. Is there another setting I need to change for Active Directory to see that I have changed the location?
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Relocating SBS share is relatively easy but has to meet very specific requirements. The following document will hep with the requirements though some of the changes will have to be done manually now. The share name is also important as outlined.
See step #3 in:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/maintain/movedata.mspx
Yes I downloaded this document earlier. But it only gives details of the existing share. Not when an idiot like me has removed it and changed its location.

What would you recommend? I suppose I could recreated the share and permissions on the c: drive again and see if it works then use the Xcopy C:\Users Shared Folders D:\Users Shared Folders /e /o /d /h /v /c>>C:\Copyresults.txt command to change it's location. I was just hoping for a quick fix which I didn't know about?
Can you post the security- and share permission for the "User Shared Folder". Also check the inheritent.

Try to make a test folder in "User Shared Folder" and check the security permission on the test folder.

SG
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OK. There isn't a Quota tab on D: for some reason? I can confirm that it is an NTFS partition
Are you a server administrator? It should be there, though possibly not configured, unless you do not have full admin rights.
Try without it. IMHO it shouldn't be necessary, it's just another control.
yeah im setting up a new SBS server and im logged in as the administrator. the quota must be the issue as that is the error im getting now when im setting up a new user.

i can see a quota tab on the c: drive just not on d:..strange
To the best of my knowledge there are only 3 reasons it can be missing (check #3)
1) - the drive is not formated with NTFS
2) - you are not a server admin
3) - the default admin share is not present. Right click on the drive (not folder) and choose properties | sharing | "share this folder" should be selected and in the drop down list the default admin share D$. You cannot set the permissions for this share.
Although moving the directory back solved my issue, I think you were probably the most helpful.

Thanks
Thanks the_omnific.
If moving the folders back resolved the issue it must have been that the share 'pointer' had not been changed. Regardless, glad to hear you were able to resolve.
Cheers !
--Rob