Wow, I opened a can of worms. In looking into an issue on my Win2K3 file server, I found that I can't run a certain application from the command line that I can from Explorer. It exists in the Program Files folder and I'm logged in as Administrator. The error message on the command line simply says Access Denied. Procmon shows the event, and declares the following results on the exe: Name Invalid, Invalid Parameter, Fast IO Disallowed, Buffer Overflow. This runs from the GUI just fine, so I don't think the problem is with the exe.
The next part (no idea if it's related), is I tried running some other commands in diagnosing the above dilemma that also don't work. A few, but not all of the Sysinternal PS utils don't work. What's more, is when I right click and choose properties of one of the psutils that doesn't work, the security tab it non-existant. I can't delete/move/rename the file either. I've tried takeown, icacls, nothing let's me do anything with it. One thing that's different fro the first issue is I can't run them from the gui. Says I don't have permission either way. Chkdsk shows no errors. AV scans who no problems. The security tab is visible on other items, just not the ones I've discovered so far with this problem. The PS utils that don't work, do work when run from another folder. CMD.exe appears identical to same file on another server. In a few minutes I will be able to take the server down as people go home. Then I can try an offline delete. Any thoughts? Never seen this before. -- Mike Gill ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
