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I have a single windows 2003 server that is a domain controller. I have several shares setup on the server. I would assume that the users in the domain admin group should be able to access these shares (map to their profile) without having rights explicitly granted to them in share permissions. This does not seem to be the case. I can only map these shares to the domain admins if I explicitly grant that permission to the group. Is this expected behaviour? Anybody have any ideas on why this is happening?
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I have a single windows 2003 server that is a domain controller. I have several shares setup on the server. I would assume that the users in the domain admin group should be able to access these shares (map to their profile) without having rights explicitly granted to them in share permissions. This does not seem to be the case. I can only map these shares to the domain admins if I explicitly grant that permission to the group. Is this expected behaviour? Anybody have any ideas on why this is happening?

Domain Admin Rights on Server Shares

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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