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Once you've logged in as the <b>domain admin</b>, whats your results when running the following commands, from <b>an elevated privileged command prompt</b>?<br />
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-39675185-1"><span>takeown /F x:\directory /R</span>
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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-39675185-2"><span>cacls x:\directory</span>
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Try below<br />
Logon to file server with user having administrative rights.<br />
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1st of all check what share permissions for authenticated users on root share folder under which home directories residing <br />
Ensure that Change - share permission to &quot;Authenticated Users&quot; group.If not then please provide the same.<br />
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Permissions may not be applied from parent folder to subfolders and files, so please check the permission of the file instead of the parent folder and see if user has Full Control permission on that file.<br />
if not, then provide user (owner of home directory) with required NTFS permissions (Modify) on it's respective &nbsp;home directory and click apply.<br />
<b>Then from advanced NTFS security permissions window, select &quot;replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object&quot; checkbox and apply.</b><br />
if you faced any access denied error at this stage then<br />
Take ownership of folder through NTFS advanced security permissions with &quot;Replace owners on subcontainers&quot; option selected.<br />
Then once again try step mentioned above in bold and check user is able access files.<br />
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Best practises for home directories<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555046" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555046</a><br />
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Mahesh
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Also check for locked files.<br />
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Ref<br />
<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725689.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.c<wbr />om/en-us/l<wbr />ibrary/cc7<wbr />25689.aspx<wbr /></a><br />
<a href="http://lockhunter.com/" rel="ugc">http://lockhunter.com/</a>, or similar.
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Fixed myself. &nbsp;Also, this question accidentally got posted twice.
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I just did a file server migration frmo an old Windows 2003 server to a new 2008 server. &nbsp;I migrated all our users home directories over with no issues...Or so I thought. &nbsp;Users can access their directories, can create files and folders within their directories, but cannot edit any MS Office files after they've been created. &nbsp;If I try and edit one, even as an Administrator, I get an &quot;Access Denied&quot; error. &nbsp;I can create and edit text files all day long in the same location. &nbsp;Help!!!
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I just did a file server migration frmo an old Windows 2003 server to a new 2008 server.  I migrated all our users home directories over with no issues...Or so I thought.  Users can access their directories, can create files and folders within their directories, but cannot edit any MS Office files after they've been created.  If I try and edit one, even as an Administrator, I get an "Access Denied" error.  I can create and edit text files all day long in the same location.  Help!!!

Users can create files and folders in home drive but can't change them

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