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Great info, thanks!<br />
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I wanted to try and get clarification on how UNC paths function. My understanding that when typing a UNC path, for instance to access a server running server 2003 I would use \\server01\share\foldera\f<wbr />olderb that each folder or hop required that you had permissions to move to the next level below. <br />
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However recently I ran into a case where a user did not have any rights to foldera but was able to access folderb if the full UNC path was entered. It seems that UNC acts in the same way a share would to bypass folders at higher levels that the user does not have access to. I didn't find any good information online so any help you can provide would be great. 
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I wanted to try and get clarification on how UNC paths function. My understanding that when typing a UNC path, for instance to access a server running server 2003 I would use \\server01\share\foldera\folderb that each folder or hop required that you had permissions to move to the next level below. 

However recently I ran into a case where a user did not have any rights to foldera but was able to access folderb if the full UNC path was entered. It seems that UNC acts in the same way a share would to bypass folders at higher levels that the user does not have access to. I didn't find any good information online so any help you can provide would be great. 

UNC Path and Permissions

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