ramon82 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Dear allmI have a very strange problem and I sincerely hope you can help me out here.Recently I upgraded my windows 2000 server with an additional 1GB RAM. Thisupgrade had to be a relief to the server but it seems to have caused a verystrange problem to occur. When the business day started users were complainingthat they couldnt save changes they make on their network folder particularlyexcel files (.XLS). They couldnt save changes, delete, rename or do anything...only read the file! Funny thing is that problem did not affect anyone and itseems to have been affecting more and more users gradually not all at once.Also it is to be noted that the users have full permissions on these files....and also trying to delete the files from the server side using theAdministrator account does not work either!!!Then it came to mind to update the server with all updates and also to updateall client office xp to SP3. And it worked....but only for a few days...problemsurfaced. Cant delete, modify or do anything it keeps saying that there is asharing violation and file is in use (not true as file is only opened by asingle user).Can anyone help me out here? I would be very grateful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 I remember that somebody posted exactly the same problem here a few days ago. The solution was simply to reboot the server, and the problem disappeared permanently.If it does not solve your problem, can you check the server's event log, if there is anything that would indicate what the problem could be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted August 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 it was me as well but it did not solve my problem unfortunately...pls help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted August 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Here's an update to my problem. I checked the NTFS permissions of those users having problems, and found that in the DACL of the folder in which the files reside there was a user SID which seemed to be corrupted as instead of the username an icon with a face and a question mark appeared and name is in the form of HEX...After removing this unknown user from the DACL and rebooted server problem seemed to have been solved as I could delete, modify etc but I am not sure about it...Has anyone encountered this before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted August 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 This is the DACL with the corrupted user...http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7553/44023017yw7.jpgany ideas?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramon82 Posted August 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 can anyone suggest anything? i am having this problem :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 You should remove this user, and manually add the correct user. You may need to supply Domain Administrator credentials to add users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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