I have been through hell the past couple days and would like some info on a few things.
Yesterday we went to reboot our Windows 2003 Fileshare server and it simply would not come up due to a bad motherboard (lucky us). Being on a Sunday we had to act fast to get this back up for Monday as our company rely's heavily on filesharing.
LUCKILY we had a full backup of the 2003 File Server.
So, what we ended up doing was building a brand new Windows 2008 R2 Server inside VMware, created the Share drives the way they were on the old server then restored using the backup from the 2003 Server. Everything looked successful and all permissions"look" like they are there but they are not working properly. For example, I have full rights to my User share, I can view everything but I cannot save anything additional, this is happening on every share drive on that server. I created a brand new Share folder as a test and applied the proper permissions and all works the way it should. I tried removing certain permissions and simply re-adding them but that does not work as well. I also notice that the "read-only attribute" is grayed out and checked off for ever Share folder and I cannot change it, is that normal?
Is this because the permissions inside Server 2008 R2 are applied differently than Server 2003?