Shared folder on removable drive stops working in Server 2003 R2

[Guest Dmitry Anikin]

I have Server 2003, there's a removable USB HDD which has a shared folder. It's used as read-only,

caching is turned off. If you remove the HDD and then insert it again - the shared folder no longer

works. It says it's still shared, but if you enter it through the network it's just empty, you don't

even get an error. Now, if you do "safe removal" then everything is fine, but alas there's no one to

do that (someone comes, switches hdds and goes away, doesn't have a console login) and anyway if the

folder is in use safe removal doesn't do anything.

The only thing I can think of is running some script through scheduler which checks every minute for

the folder's availability and re-shares it if necessary. Not a very neat solution.

I could give a person a console login (but definitely not an administrative one) - but how do I give

a user the rights to share a folder? If it were XP I could make scheduler task with saved admin

credentials and let user run it through schtasks, but 2003 doesn't allow a user to run schtasks.