Odd permissioning error with Windows 7 and Server share.

We are using Windows 7 Enterprise clients connecting to a virtual server with Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. We recently installed 248 computers that had been cloned by our VAR from a clean machine that we setup. In one building with 35 computer, about 20 of them are having an odd issue. All the others have been fine. The issue concerns browsing the network to a shared drive. The server contains shared directories for 4 sites, each site has a series of shared directories within the main share. Logging in to a client machine with Domain Administrative credentials, I can browse to all the sites and all the directories except the directory for the User directory for that site. When I try to access that user directory I get a message saying I do not have permission to access the directory. If I try to look at the permissions for that directory, I get a message that I do not have permission to see the permissions. Other computers in the same room from the same cloned image do not have this issue. I have deleted profiles, deleted computer accounts, change computer names, run registry edits, deleted profile lists from the registry, run Windows repair, unjoined and rejoined from the Domain. Nothing will all any user to access anything in this particular directory that is perfectly accessible from other computers at this site. I have erased 3 of the computers and reinstalled Windows from scratch and they work just fine.

What is going on? I know I can just reinstall Windows on the rest and move on. But I would really like an answer as to what the cause would be in case it happens again or in case it was something I did when installing Windows in the first place. And one more thing, when I setup the original machine I did not connect the join the machine to our Domain so it could not pickup Configuration Manager or any other policy from our system.

Any thought?

-Christina Stewart

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