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SharkfinHW

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    Hello Everyone,

    Have a situation, would appreciate your valuable support and answer on this.

    I have a small office environment with a Windows Server 2012 Standard edition in place along with 6 Windows PCs connected to a basic network system, wherein which non of the clients are connected to the server via active directory but work as individual workstations. The dhcp and dns is provided by the router itself.

    Now the Server has a tally server software running, along with the clients running the tally client software on their systems respectively.

    We have a couple of folders on the server that needs to be shared on the network in order for the client PCs to be able to access these folders for the tally to work properly.

    The server already has active directory installed on it with some users created for that domain, now the necessary users have been given full privileges to access these shared folders.

    However, when we type in the \\ and server IP to access these shared folder we get an login page, then when typing that full privilege user's name and password, we get the access denied message, which happens to occur via my network places, etc. But for some reason depending on the moment or time, the PC suddenly can access these shared folders via my network places and can be mapped after typing in the username and password, so then tally works.

    Although typing in the server IP to access these shared folders never goes in, and says access denied again.(even though we can access those shared folders during that moment)

    Now I don't think this is a windows 10 issue, cause its the same problem with other versions of windows as well.

    Appreciate if you can help me out.

    Thank You

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    Re: "Access Denied" message on trying to access network shared folders
    « Reply #1 on: July 22, 2018, 02:00:27 PM »
    Are you using both the Share and NTFS security permissions? If one contradicts the other its possible to get odd interactions at times.  I recommend opening NTFS permissions up to everyone but restricting the Share security to only those 6 computers in a group, if that's the case. 

    There are other suggestions and an actual resolution to a problem similar to yours at this link: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b58a08ee-7d7c-4d73-a8e3-587a89f0d67a/domain-users-recieve-access-denied-errors-for-folders-they-have-permissions-to-access?forum=winserverfiles
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      Re: "Access Denied" message on trying to access network shared folders
      « Reply #2 on: August 07, 2018, 05:14:29 AM »
      Hi,

      I would recommend doing it the other way around, set the permissions on the share to everyone and then restrict the NTFS permissions, this gives you a stronger level of security as even logged in to the server the permissions are restricted.  This is how it's done in most companies and institutions.

      Cheers,
      Karl