Hi all,
I'm having a weird issue in Server 2016 in regard to share and NTFS permissions.
When I create a folder on my file server (D: partition) and I change nothing, I can access all the folders and files in it. If, however, I disable inheritance to modify the permissions and change the share and NTFS permissions, I get an error (as local and
domain admin) that I can not access the folder, I get a prompt and when I choose continue it adds the specific account (which is either local or domain admin) to the NTFS permissions. The share and NTFS permissions are as follows:
Share:
User group - Modify
Domain admins - Full Control
NTFS:
User group - Modify
Administrators - Full Control*
Domain Admins - Full control
* It doesn't matter whether I only give permissions to Administrators (of which domain admins is a member) or Domain Admins when I'm logged into a domain admin account.
The ownership of the folder does not influence anything as well, even when my account owns the folder I still get the prompt. When I change the the owner of the folder to, for instance the domain admins, I'm all of a sudden kicked out of it altogether (even though my account is a domain admin).
Turning off UAC does not change anything either. Neither does re-adding the server to the domain, nor does formatting the harddisk (as the issue can be recreated on multiple drives).
My other server 2016, in the same domain, also has this issue. Yet another server, also a Server 2016, in another domain which I'm administrator of doesn't have this issue at all. I have even recreated the domain in order to check whether the issue is domain
related, this turns out not to be the case.
Does anyone else have similar problems with NTFS permissions not being applied properly? Is this a known bug in 2016 after a specific update?
If anyone has any tips, I'd very much appreciate the help.
Kind regards,
Ranko
Edit: I've tried SFC as well, did not help. Clean install of Windows did not help either (it was being updated right after the installation, so I can not rule out a bug due to an update).