Permissions problem Server 2003

Hi All
I have a problem with my 2003 domain. I have a server 2003 machine as the DC and DNS. I have about 14 client machines connecting to the domain. I today tried to change permissions on a folder on one of the machines and it will only allow local user profiles to be added/ammended. I then tried on other machines and they are the same. Even though the folders are shared on the network, and they are logged onto the domain using the domain admin account, but when i try to ammend permissions they only allow the local path as a location and will not see domain users. I can use the server to browse to the machine and change the permissions from there but they are not effective when i return to the client.
One of the machines did see the domain location but did not recognise any users when i entered them and came up with an error that the object could not be found.

Also, When i access a shared folder on the server from a client and try to change the permissions, it gives an error saying
'The program cannot open the required dialog box because no locations can be found. Close this message and try again'

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

Patdit - welcome to the forum.

The place to start is with setting permissions I think. The thing most easily to overlook is that there are two levels of permissions that you need to set:

• Share permissions - are set at the share. That is when you view the share properties, you click on the Permissions button and set the share permissions there. If you imagine you are providing permission to a room full of goodies, the share permission effectively would be the permissions that controls who can enter and exit through the door to the room.
• File and folder permissions - these are set at the folder/file level. You access these permissions by right clicking on a file or folder and selecting the permissions tab. They control who has rights to this particular file or folder. If you set permissions at the folder level (which is easiest to manage), the files and sub-folders in that folder will inherit the permission rules you set on the folder (unless you specify that the permissions will not be inherited). In the room analogy, file and folder permission control where you can go and what you can access once you are in the room

I expect your problem is that you have set one set of permissions but not the other.