Give the 'partial-admin' a root folder and share it..full control to them. That would probably get you there assuming all the shares are inside of that......
From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Right to create share on server? I'd think you'd still need the ability to modify NTFS permissions... On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> wrote: Would granting them permissions on the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer keys and subkeys allow this? I am shooting in the dark here but would be interested to know if it works or not... 2009/8/24 Christopher Bodnar <christopher_bod...@glic.com<mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com>> Windows Server 2003: We are looking at delegating some administrative tasks. One of these tasks is creating shares on member servers. Is it possible to delegate this task without adding the user to the local administrators group? Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com<mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com> Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ________________________________ This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~