Wasn't necessarily stating a should/shoudn't - was stating my
expectations and understanding, which was clearly faulty.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:52, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> LocalSystem has full control over the local machine, and can authenticate as 
> machinename$ to remote machines (which is what would be required for services 
> that are running as LocalSystem but need to access remote machines, without 
> some proxy process). Additionally for LocalSystem to access shares on the 
> same machine, it would still have full control (unless you change the perms). 
> Anyhoo, the previous is merely technical limitations - i.e. what is possible. 
> Am still curious to know why it shouldn't have that access.
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 10:41 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: User accounts for shared folders
>
> I expected that System would have access to shares because they are normally 
> for network access, and according to everything I've read, System doesn't 
> have that. AFAIK, System is only for access to resources local to the machine.
>
> Someone else noted that System is used in DFS (FRS), which is surprising to 
> me, but I don't think he'd be joshing me, so I believe him, because I have 
> never had cause to use DFS.
>
> Now, if System can access shares that are local to the machine, that's 
> perhaps not quite as surprising, but does seem a fairly odd way of doing 
> things.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:45, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why shouldn't "system" talk to shares?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2011 3:55 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: User accounts for shared folders
>>
>> Why would you do that, when System isn't supposed to be able to talk to 
>> shares? Has something changed drastically in later versions of of Windows, 
>> that is, after Win2k3?
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:45, Crawford, Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> System on share permissions may be rare, but its certainly not out of the 
>>> question. I've got share permissions that specify System.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:42 PM
>>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>>> Subject: Re: User accounts for shared folders
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:57, Tammy Stewart 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Ran into something interesting today t-shooting a virus issue on a network.
>>>>
>>>> On every share there is no system account listed. Only Domain admins
>>>> & domain users.
>>>>
>>>> My google kung-fu seems to be lacking today but is there
>>>> anything/reason why the system account would not show up?
>>>>
>>>> System account does exist on the machine – non shared directories have it.
>>>> Just the shares that seem affected.
>>>>
>>>> Windows 2003 domain (if that makes any difference)
>>>>
>>>> Not just the system with infected files on the shares – all the
>>>> servers are like this including clean ones (that have not been
>>>> touched by the virus yet)
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any kb articles or something I can look at that would
>>>> explain this? (and hopefully put them back to normal)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Tammy
>
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