Trouble Assigning Folder Permissions

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From: Tom E. Pinkerton (sumptom-msnewsgroups_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:43:58 -0700

Friends,

I'm relatively new to Windows Server 2003, and obviously
there is a big piece of the security picture that I am
missing. :-)

At the school where I work, we have Windows Server 2003
Standard running our internal network. On that server, I
have a shared folder called "Apps" where I am storing the
student-accessible applications and related files that are
made available to them over the network. Within that apps
folder, there is a folder called "KBPRO" for our
Keyboarding Pro software, and under that a folder
called "Students" where all student performance data is
stored.

In order for the software to work properly, student
accounts need to have full read/write access to
the "Students" folder and everything under it.
Unfortunately, regardless of how I try to set the
appropriate security permissions, everyone except
administrators receives an "access denied" error message
when they attempt to write to the folder, or any folder on
the network for that matter. They can read the folders
just fine, but they can't write to them.

I have tried assigning "Full Control" permissions for
the "Students" folder to the Users group, to the Domain
Users group, to the Everyone group, to the Students group
that all students are members of, and even to an
individual user account. None of these had any effect. As
a test, I even tried giving the Everyone group "Full
Control" access to the entire data partition. Even that
did not allow anyone to write to any folder on that drive.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what I might be missing
here?

Thanks!

=Tom=

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