Users suddenly losing access rights to folders on public drive???

[Mizugori]

Lately, users are frequently complaining that when they try to save changes to an existing document they have worked on before, they get an access denied error. It also sometimes happens when they try to create new documents and save them in folders where they have previously had full rights.

The folders in question are in a directory like this:

Z:\Public\Client Documents

and there are many folders (probably about fifty) within the "Client Documents" folder.

Any ideas on why this is happening? So far when a user reports this, I go to the folder in question

(say for example Z:\Public\Client Documents\JoeSmith)

and I go to the security tab, and check "full control" for 'employees' (a group everyone here belongs to). This resolves the issue but then it keeps happening with different folders. I am not sure if something happened that screwed up the permissions ages ago and it is just only revealing itself as people try to go into different folders which haven't been accessed in a while, or if it is a constantly occurring thing and folders keep randomly changing privileges.

If anyone can help me figure this out, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

[Grenage]

Are there any administrators, other than yourself? Does the group 'employees' have permission to change permissions? If so, it might be worth removing it.

"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area" - Major Mike Shearer

 

[lhuegele]

You shouldn't click FULL CONTROL - this gives anyone the ability to change security permissions - Check everything EXCEPT full control to prevent your users from making security tab changes. Only administrators should have FULL access.

Good luck,