External Disk Permissions

[Guest Richard Price]

Hi,

 

To save time and network copying, I decided to put together a full

'install set' for our servers on a little external USB2 disk - just

stuff like all the .Net Framework installers, IE7 updater etc

 

However, I seem to almost randomly run into servers that have issues

with accessing these files - they can see the disk just fine, they can

see the files just fine, but try and run any of the executables and I

get the following error:

 

'Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may

not have the appropriate permissions to access the item'

 

No matter what permissions I give them, I get the above error. I have

even copied the files to the servers local drive, and *still* get the

above error. I cant fathom it.

 

Thoughts?

 

Cheers

Richard

[Guest Richard Price]

Re: External Disk Permissions

 

I have now fixed this - it was the IE Enhanced Security Configuration

that was causing the issues.

[Guest rllngriver]

Re: External Disk Permissions

 

 

 

"Richard Price" wrote:

> I have now fixed this - it was the IE Enhanced Security Configuration

> that was causing the issues.

>

>

 

Richard ,where did you go exactly to change this. I had a similar issue.

Also how do you access the usb drive from the pcs?

[Guest Richard Price]

Re: External Disk Permissions

 

On 20 Apr, 00:35, rllngriver <rllngri...@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote:

> "Richard Price" wrote:

> > I have now fixed this - it was the IE Enhanced Security Configuration

> > that was causing the issues.

>

> Richard ,where did you go exactly to change this. I had a similar issue.

> Also how do you access the usb drive from the pcs?

 

 

The IE Enhanced Security Configuration is an added bit of

functionality which restricts IE from doing certain things. I simply

removed it from the server (probably not the best idea) via Add/Remove

Programs.

 

As for accessing the drive, it shows up in My Computer as per any

other drive.

 

Richard