All, This is mostly of academic interest - I've DTRT, as I explain below...
I have a new guy who has an interesting problem that I haven't run into before. Server is 2008 R2. He can log into the console of the machine with his DA credentials, but when he does so, he cannot access one of the drives - unless he uses elevated credentials. There are three drives on this machine: C:, E: and F: - it's only the E: drive that he's having problems with. I've found these two articles, which purport to explain what's happening (it seems to be a UAC issue): http://serverfault.com/questions/75691/why-cant-i-browse-my-d-drive-even-if-im-in-the-administrators-group and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731677%28WS.10%29.aspx But, if that's the issue, why then can he see the F: drive? The only thing I can think of is that the F: drive is an external SAS array - but the machine has a clean install of 2008R2 that was applied after that hardware was installed, so that doesn't feel right. To rectify the issue, I've created a server administrator account with no DA privileges, and added it to the ServerAdministrators group I created and have propagated through a GPO - so there's no particular issue at the moment, but I'd still like to hear if anyone knows if I'm on the right track, or has solved it in a different fashion. Kurt
