Thanks Joe,

 

I did suspect the file share properties was an issue and I went back in and gave FC to the HD Admin group at the share level (it was set to authenticated users read and execute), they already had FC on the daughter files; logged on as a test HD Admin account and tried to change file permissions with no luck. The share is a top level folder shared out with a $ to hide it, not an admin share. The HD group does have the ability to create folders there just not to modify permissions.

 

Unfortunately, due to recent budget strangulations the possibility of getting another file server for the NY branch is totally out of the question, I’m stuck with using the DC as the repository for the roaming profiles for 2 Citrix servers. I may be able to do some juggling to get our LA account profiles moved to another server (again also on a DC (don’t blame me I just inherited the network)), but I’m still stuck with having no place but the DC to store the profiles and home drives in NY. Personally I wouldn’t even give a junior admin access to a domain controller much less the HD minions but I didn’t design the network. So is there absolutely no way to give just the right to create shares and modify folder permissions on the DC or am I stuck with having to create folders and shares for the NY accounts (There is no way I’m giving them Domain Admin rights).

 

Gideon

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Creating Super help desk minions For Win2k Domain

 

You should be able to delegate the permission to set permissions on folders on a DC just like on a member server. You simply give them FC or ChangePerms from the root on down of where you would like them to have that right...

 

For instance, if you have a folder structure of

 

F:.
+---u

   +---user1

   +---user2

   +---user3

   +---user4

   \---user5

 

You would share out U for the folder admin to connect to and assign the group you want to have either FC or ChangePerms + some others on U on down.

 

Most likely I would guess that it sounds like you are having the script connect to the F$ or whatever $ share which is admin access only.

 

Now having said that. I so recommend NOT using Domain Controllers as file shares and on top of that I absolutely DO NOT recommend allowing ANYONE besides domain admins any rights to modify the file system on Domain Controllers. You are just asking for a way to be compromised. If you trust them so much, then just give them domain admin. :o)

 

Finally, the HD people will not be able to create shares on the domain controllers.

 

  joe

 

 

 

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gideon Ashcraft
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Creating Super help desk minions For Win2k Domain

I am one of two windows admins on a 500 user 15+ branch network and I am trying to push some of the menial chores to the helpdesk staff (like account creation and Citrix profile repairing) so that I can start working on the more critical issues with our network. I have delegated the appropriate rights to our Helpdesk Admin group to create accounts within the appropriate OU’s and need to dig a little deeper to get the Exchange account creation settled (I thought I got that setup with a custom AD delegation, but I may not have enabled all the right objects) But the big stumbling block I ran into was when I was training the HD supervisor in creating accounts, and the nifty little script I wrote that created a home drive share folder, terminal services profile folder, copied the profile template and cacl’d the rights for that user failed on the cacl. Looking deeper I realized that although I gave the HD Admin group full control of the drives where these folders existed, the account was in our NY branch which only had 1 main server (domain controller) and realized that the additional security measures on a domain controller prevented him from changing the security on the folders (we had added him to the local administrator group for other servers but unable to add him to the local admin group for the domain controller).

 

Now my primary question is: how can I grant this right to modify file permissions on a domain controller without granting him Domain Admins rights?

 

Gideon Ashcraft

Network Administrator

Screen Actors Guild

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