Granting Rights to "Shared Folders" in Computer Management on 2003

I'm needing to grant a user rights to view the "Shared Folders" component
under System Tools in Computer Management. The user needs this in order to
see who is currently accessing certain files on a server share ("Open Files"
under Shared Folders shows this nicely for Administrators). Making the user a
Power User on the server didn't help, and I can't bring myself to make them a
full Administrator. I'm running Server 2003 R2 Standard.

My question is, how do I go about granting a user permissions for the Shared
Folders component of Computer Management/System Tools? I had this working on
the previous 2000 Server, but can't seem to get it working on 2003. Before, I
created a custom Management Console with the Computer Management component
loaded for the specified server. The user would be able to open the console
and drill down to System Tools, Shared Folders, but would not have access to
anything else (Event Viewer, Local Users and Groups, etc). Any help or
suggestions will be appreciated!

I found a technet conversation on this topic. It seems you need access to the
entire NTFS file system for this to work. That seems like overkill to me.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...6-c077a9a89700

Does anyone have any different ideas?

Thanks,
John

"JohnE" wrote:

> I'm needing to grant a user rights to view the "Shared Folders" component
> under System Tools in Computer Management. The user needs this in order to
> see who is currently accessing certain files on a server share ("Open Files"
> under Shared Folders shows this nicely for Administrators). Making the user a
> Power User on the server didn't help, and I can't bring myself to make them a
> full Administrator. I'm running Server 2003 R2 Standard.
>
> My question is, how do I go about granting a user permissions for the Shared
> Folders component of Computer Management/System Tools? I had this working on
> the previous 2000 Server, but can't seem to get it working on 2003. Before, I
> created a custom Management Console with the Computer Management component
> loaded for the specified server. The user would be able to open the console
> and drill down to System Tools, Shared Folders, but would not have access to
> anything else (Event Viewer, Local Users and Groups, etc). Any help or
> suggestions will be appreciated!

"JohnE" <> wrote in message
news:B591F619-56FE-4C16-B004-...
>I found a technet conversation on this topic. It seems you need access to
>the
> entire NTFS file system for this to work. That seems like overkill to me.
>
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...6-c077a9a89700
>
> Does anyone have any different ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>

Theoretically, if you need to allow a user access to Shared and NTFS
permissions of a folder, then they would need access to the file system.

Is this on a DC? I don't think it is, since you mentioned you tried Power
Users, which doesn't exist on a DC, but I just wanted to ask just in case.

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