SBS 2003 Folder Share Permissions / Rights

I am stuck on a permission/rights problem that I just escapes me.... I
suspect that I am just being really thick about it. Your insight would be
greatly appreciated.

I am trying to create a folder on my new SBS 2003 machine that all users can
see and that contains sub folders which have different group rights.
Specifically I want a folder called "Apps" that I will have workstations map
to as the "S" drive. In this "Apps" folder I want sub-folders such as
"Accounting", "Word processing", "Etc" that are each assigned different
group rights.

I have assigned the local User group Read/Change Permissions to the Apps
folder an it can indeed be seen by the users. I have assigned the
sub-folder "Accounting" full control Permission for Administrators and the
Accounting Group and have also assigned full control Security rights for the
same groups. I even disabled inherited rights to the sub-folder and copied
all settings down the tree (because I do not what all users to be able to
even have read permissions to the contents of the sub-folder). When I test
the users effective permissions at the Accounting folder level it says that
the user has full control. However, the users does not have full control
from the workstation. I believe that my problem is that I am connecting to
the share at the top folder level and so the user is only being given the
read rights from the top level folder and everything below that folder. It
seems to disregard the rights assigned to the Accounting sub-folder.

Please tell me what I am missing here, or more simply, what is the correct
way to do this.

I have also observe that the Permission settings and the Security rights are
not consistent when viewed in Windows Explorer vs. when viewed in the Server
Manager. Should I be working exclusively in Server Manager? I have updated
the Permissions and Security via both methods to no avail.

Many thanks.


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