I was playing around with a trial version of server 2008 a couple days ago and I set it up like I did with any other server – created users and added them to the administrators group. I figured in 2003 it worked fine, so why wouldn’t it work in 2008? As you possibly guessed by now, it didn’t go as planned. I didn’t have access to any admin shares, nor did I have access to any shares I created if I just used the administrators group for the permissions. If I added each person to the share, it would be fine, however that group just didn’t work.
Then after reading around a bit I found out there is new security in Server 2008 and the only way to possibly get around this is by hacking the registry and adding a key. I didn’t feel that was right so I went on to plan B – create another group and add them with permissions instead…