I once saw this at one customer, but then it was something rather
unusually...

Domain Users was a member of the administrators group in the domain.
Cute little thing :-)

But im sure this is not your case!

/J

"GLT" <GLT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C129269B-EADA-4232-B8A1-46B3EB6B5DE3@microsoft.com...
> We've since migrated to Server 2003, but we need to keep an NT 4.0 BDC
online
> for awhile, so we are in Mixed-Mode. Problem is, strange things are
> happening when you attempt to set NTFS Permissions on this NT 4.0 BDC
> (Service Pack 6a).
>
> Off of the Root of C:\ are two folders created a few moments apart as a
test
> to address this same problem that was discovered today:
>
> Created Folder-1
> Created Folder-2
>
> Root Share: Everyone Full Control
>
> Folder SHARE: Everyone Full Control on both.
>
> NTFS Permissions on both:
>
> Folder-1 is set for Administrator, Domain Admins at the NTFS Level. No
other
> Users or Groups. No one else can get in. Access denied. End of story.
>
> Folder-2 also is set for Administrator, Domain Admins at the NTFS Level.
No
> other Users or Groups.
>
> Here is where it is strange: ANYONE can breech Folder-2 across the
network,
> despite it's IDENTICAL permissions.
>
> Any idea what's going on here? Same Permssions, same disk.
>
> This has me thoroughly stumped. FWIW, this system is some seven years old;
> don't know if there could be corrupted clusters causing this or not....
>
>