Windows 2008 R2 Server with Access Based Enumeration enabled on any of its shares will still present inaccessible folders to the users. However upon double clicking on the folder the error message will change as follows:
With ABE disabled the user will receive the standard Access Denied message
With ABE enabled the user will receive "folderpath refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network......." This imples that ABE is working to an extent but just not hiding the folders.
The server is running DFS only for replication - we have no namespace. I have created a test root folder and subfolders, applied the relevant permissions so that a test user has no access to one of the test folders and the test user can still see the folder. I have replicated this test environment on 2 other servers (both 2008 R2, one of which running DFS) and ABE works as expected. This proves that the issue is definitely not permissions related. It seems that there is some odd quirk on the server that I need to have this working on.
Any Ideas. Could ABE be corrupt - is there a way to reset/repair the facility?
Anyy help would stop me from going bald!
Thanks Shayne