Refferal works and users see content according to their location in site
however we have some users which would occasionally want to access server in
other site and this can easily be done via "set active" button in DFS tab in
Explorer however this action generates parameter incorrect for all domain
users (works ok if i grant domain users local admin rights --> member of
computer\administrators).
Question is: Is it possible in any way to grant domain users permissions to
this action via GP or some other server side setting since i have no desire
to allow users to be local admins?
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"Matej" <Ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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DFS works perfectly domain\me account which is local admin (also domain
admin but that doesnt matter in this case) on somethingPC works ok i can
access data on server1\share and use feature from windows explorer (right
click on dfs share and DFS tab and option "set active" to change dfs link aka
active server) to change DFS link to server2\share and view files on server2.
Now here comes the problem there are users (imagine that :) ) on my network
domain\themxy which are regular domain users and also local users on their
machines and while they can see content of DFS share (aka server1(2)\share
depending on their site location) they are unable to use feature from windows
explorer to change active server like i can do (but if i add domain\them
account to local admin group on their pc they can use this feature) Therefore
i must conclude that it has something to do with the way windows security
manages disks - even under DFS). I've so far excluded any other possibility
such as OU, site membership, local machines peculiarities etc.
\\namespace\problemdfsshare\--->server1\share (site1)
--->server2\share (site2)
user has mapped X: to \\namespace\problemdfsshare\ and sees server1 or
server2 depending on their site location
local admin can change between server1 or server2 (different content to be
exact) but if user attempts to do so by clicking on "set active" produces
incorrect parameter error.
I hope this clarifies the problem a bit :).
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"Matej" <Ma...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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On a W2K3 server, you will get error "The parameter is incorrect". On a
Vista machine, you will see "Access Denied".
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Thanks,
Alan
Though it's a neat feature and could save lots of time for users if it
worked.