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Reinstall Question - Administrator Account

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Well, I reinstalled from trial to licensed and all my shares are there. whew!
However, the Administrator account does not have access to any share. There does not appear to be a way to change that either. I can get to them by navigating to D:\shares\<sharename> but no access when you open \\<servername>\<sharename>. Any clues?Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:08 AM
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Thank you all. Apparently, when I added a regular user, Administrator got all the shared folder rights back.
- Marked as answer by kevine56 Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:50 PM
Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:50 PM
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Well, I reinstalled from trial to licensed and all my shares are there. whew!
However, the Administrator account does not have access to any share. There does not appear to be a way to change that either. I can get to them by navigating to D:\shares\<sharename> but no access when you open \\<servername>\<sharename>. Any clues?
Do you mean from the server desktop (which is unsupported anyways)? Can you connect to the server shares from a client PC with your regular user accounts?Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:15 AMModerator -
It's possible that ownership of some of your files still resides with the previous installation of Windows Home Server. As a result, you may need to reset the owner information on your shares:
- Log on to your server using Remote Desktop or physical console.
- Open Windows Explorer on your server.
- Navigate in Explorer to D:\Shares (note that this is an exception to the general rule that direct manipulation of the shares is not advised).
- For each share shown:
- Right click the share and select Properties , then the Security tab.
- Click the Advanced button.
- Click on the Owner tab. Make sure that the Administrators group (not the Administrator id) is listed.
- Select replace owner on subcontainers and objects and click Apply .
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:52 AMModerator -
Thank you all. Apparently, when I added a regular user, Administrator got all the shared folder rights back.
- Marked as answer by kevine56 Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:50 PM
Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:50 PM