>>>Hi Neal,
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>>>The directory gave rights only to a specific group to which Administrator does not belong. Funny, I though Administrator had rights to everything, but if you think about it it is appropriate that a user can deny rights to Administrator, so I am starting to think that it worked as designed.
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>>>Thanks for the answer.
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>>Rightmouse click on the C: drive in my computer, go to properties, then security, then advanced. You want to "take ownership" and also make sure it changes the subfolder ownership properties. This should fix the problem.
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>>If you don't see "Security" in the properties, you will need to go to the Tools>Folder Options>View on the menu and scroll to the bottom. Uncheck "use simple file sharing"
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>>John
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>Thank you John.
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>This has been very instructive. Still looking for an explanation, I think (not sure) that when I started setting up server I may have created user Alex and immediately set up the problem folder, which I use as a mapped disk. That may explain why user Alex had rights and user Administrator did not.
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>Alex

Yep, it's an ACL issue. Sometimes you have this when the ACL gets corrupted and sometimes when you restore data to a drive, and sometimes when your scenario comes into play. I agree, it does seem that the Administrator would have access to everything, by default.

John