Dear all

I 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. This upgrade had to be a relief to the server but it seems to have caused a very strange problem to occur. When the business day started users were complaining that they couldnt save changes they make on their network folder particularly excel 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 it seems 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 the Administrator account does not work either!!!

Then it came to mind to update the server with all updates and also to update all client office xp to SP3. And it worked....but only for a few days...problem surfaced. Cant delete, modify or do anything it keeps saying that there is a
sharing violation and file is in use (not true as file is only opened by a single user).

Can anyone help me out here? I would be very grateful!

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?

This is the DACL with the corrupted user...


http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7553/44023017yw7.jpg


any ideas??

Dear,

I have same problem in my Windows server 2000 in my Drive E if any user try to create folder and rename is it always give msg sharing violation. even an administrator try to create folder he can do that but if he rename it give msg. my all 5 (FIVE) user have right for full control. but the can create, delete, read, write, but when they rename it gives sharing violation.

Help me email me at samarkhaboy@hotmail.com if you get solution on this.
Any help on this appreciated.
Amrish

Originally Posted by ramon82

This is the DACL with the corrupted user...


http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7553/44023017yw7.jpg


any ideas??

sill having problems..any more ideas?