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Missing Folder Dave 07-01-2005
Posted by Dave on July 1, 2005, 9:49 am
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 I have a folder called Internet that seems to have disappeared on one of
my Windows 2003 servers. You would think the solution would be to
re-create it and restore from backup, but no. The folder is there, but
it isn't. If I try to create a new folder with the same name, it says
it exists. I have checked all my settings to make sure the folder is
not hidden and nothing is set to make it disappear.

What is even stranger is what happened when I created a folder on a
different drive and called it Internet. The folder created and then
disappeared. I try to create it again in the same directory and it says
it already exists.

Does anyone have any clue as to what might be causing this? A reboot of
the server did not fix the problem.

Thanks,

Dave


Posted by Dave on July 1, 2005, 9:53 am
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 Just one more thing to add. I can see the folder just fine when I
connect to the drive through a share from another computer. And when I
connect to a different computer from the server that has a folder in it
called Internet, I can't see it.

Dave wrote:
> I have a folder called Internet that seems to have disappeared on one of
> my Windows 2003 servers. You would think the solution would be to
> re-create it and restore from backup, but no. The folder is there, but
> it isn't. If I try to create a new folder with the same name, it says
> it exists. I have checked all my settings to make sure the folder is
> not hidden and nothing is set to make it disappear.
>
> What is even stranger is what happened when I created a folder on a
> different drive and called it Internet. The folder created and then
> disappeared. I try to create it again in the same directory and it says
> it already exists.
>
> Does anyone have any clue as to what might be causing this? A reboot of
> the server did not fix the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave


Posted by Rob S on July 1, 2005, 4:07 pm
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-I have a folder called Internet that seems to have disappeared on one of
-my Windows 2003 servers. You would think the solution would be to
-re-create it and restore from backup, but no. The folder is there, but
-it isn't. If I try to create a new folder with the same name, it says
-it exists. I have checked all my settings to make sure the folder is
-not hidden and nothing is set to make it disappear.

Check your NTFS security settings. If it tells you you don't have rights, go
into advanced, and change the owner of the folder to yourself. Then you should
be able to see the rights, contents etc.

This kind of thing can happen when the folder loses track of who it's owned by,
or that Administrator no longer has access to it....


-Rob
robatwork at mail dot com


Posted by Dave on July 1, 2005, 11:08 am
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Rob S wrote:
> Check your NTFS security settings. If it tells you you don't have rights, go
> into advanced, and change the owner of the folder to yourself. Then you should
> be able to see the rights, contents etc.
>
> This kind of thing can happen when the folder loses track of who it's owned by,
> or that Administrator no longer has access to it....
>
>
> -Rob
> robatwork at mail dot com

I did check this, but it still doesn't explain why any folder I create
or attempt to see on other systems that is call Internet also
disappears. I can see the Internet folder from other computers when I
connect to the server with the issue.

I have also been doing more work with it because the folder happens to
be used to hold web pages. When a user browses to the folder /internet,
they get a 404 error. However, if they go into a sub folder, IIS works
fine. IIS can't see the folder in IIS Console either.


Posted by Richard on July 13, 2005, 10:23 pm
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Check the NTFS rights, you mave have create/modify rights without having
list rights. Is this inheriting it's settings from a parent folder. This
really sounds like a rights issue. If this is not yet production give
yourself full control, and try it again.


Richard Glenn
NewsGroups@RaptorConsulting.org



> Rob S wrote:
>> Check your NTFS security settings. If it tells you you don't have rights,
>> go
>> into advanced, and change the owner of the folder to yourself. Then you
>> should
>> be able to see the rights, contents etc.
>>
>> This kind of thing can happen when the folder loses track of who it's
>> owned by,
>> or that Administrator no longer has access to it....
>>
>>
>> -Rob
>> robatwork at mail dot com
>
> I did check this, but it still doesn't explain why any folder I create
> or attempt to see on other systems that is call Internet also
> disappears. I can see the Internet folder from other computers when I
> connect to the server with the issue.
>
> I have also been doing more work with it because the folder happens to
> be used to hold web pages. When a user browses to the folder /internet,
> they get a 404 error. However, if they go into a sub folder, IIS works
> fine. IIS can't see the folder in IIS Console either.




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