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Developer access to Netlogon subfolder
We have 2 users that need modify permissions to this folder \\domainname\netlogon\push, running on Windows 2019 DC. With my administrator account I can add/delete files/folders. When I add the develo...
Modifying the \sysvol permissions is asking for troubles. The share permissions are what prevents writing - which are set to Read. To allow writing to NETLOGON, have your users to access its content via SYSVOL share.
rather than connecting to
\\DC\Netlogon
have them connect to
\\DC\SYSVOL\somedomainname.com\Scripts
- Hello Dave, thank you. Our alternate path is \\abc\sysvol\abc.local\scripts\newfolder but until permissions are adjusted they cannot make any changes to the "newfolder" folder. Even though the system allows me to set their NTFS permissions to modify on the folder they still can't make modifications on the folder and you're saying the share permissions are set to read which is the issue. Is there no option to get around the lockdown without adding them to the group my account belongs to which has modify access to all of the folders?
Something here could help.
Unable to Access SYSVOL and NETLOGON folders from Windows 10 | Windows OS Hub (woshub.com)
- Thank you for that but the developers can access the folder they just can't make any file/folder modifications within it. For example if they try to upload a file they get a message that states "you need permission to perform this action" which coincides with what I see when I check their permissions via the folders security tab "effective access" which shows they only have read/list even though I gave them modify rights
