Hello gregarican,
Did you apply the GPO setting:
Computer configuration, Windows settings, Security settings, Local policies,
User right assignment "logon as a batch job" for the user account in question
on the OU where the machine is located?
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
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> I am trying to migrate my old Windows 2000 Server to Windows 2008
> Server. There are a boatload of new features in 2008 and that's even a
> departure from some of my 2003 boxes. Currently I am hitting a
> roadblock that appears to be permissions-related. Here are two
> examples:
>
> 1) I have a few dozen scheduled tasks that I brought over into 2008.
> All of these run fine when I manually run them at the 2008 box
> interactively. But the tasks that involve saving files to remote
> directories fail if I am logged off the 2008 box. The tasks are script
> files that work fine on 2000 and 2003 boxes. I am using full UNC paths
> and have verified that the user account the tasks are running under
> definitely has permissions to the UNC paths. I chose to run the tasks
> under the domain admin account, chose to run the tasks whether or not
> the user is logged on, and chose to elevate to the highest privileges.
> Still no luck. Like I said, the tasks all run perfectly when I run
> them through the Task Scheduler interactively. But when I look at the
> results of these tasks when I'm logged off there are access/permission
> denied type of errors when the UNC paths are being referenced.
>
> 2) I have some Crystal Reports hosted on IIS. The user navigates to
> the web pages and a web viewer displays these RPT files. This worked
> fine previously on the old 2000 box with its IIS setup. All of the RPT
> files display fine on the 2008 box with its IIS except for those RPT
> files that are associated with a data source that isn't SQL-based. The
> ones that have a UNC path reference (e.g. - Foxpro, Access, etc. data
> source) all don't display due to similar access/permission denied
> errors. Once again, I've verified that the user account the task was
> running under (the domain admin account) has permissions to access
> them, etc.
>
> This is frankly becoming very frustrating, since I've googled and
> tried to employ all of the tricks up my sleeve. And I need these areas
> of the new system to function as expected. And they do under Windows
> 2000 and Windows 2003 Server. Just not under Windows 2008 Server. So
> any suggestions would be appreciated :-)
>