View From the Bushes

I'm having these very strange problems at work, and though I'm pretty sure telling you about them will bore most everyone to tears, my hope is that somebody, somewhere will read this and realize that in addition to being an insipid writer, a lazy slob and an appallingly poor parent, I am also really bad at my job. That's my dream at least; I can only hope that it comes true.

I've got this web server (unfortunately, it's Windows for reasons too extensive to go into here) and about two weeks ago it started occasionally asking people for a username and password, but only every so often, almost as if it had forgotten that these people were members of the domain. Then a few days later it cut off all access to any programs which wanted to know who you were. Rebooting it seemed to fix the problem. But then these usernames and passwords started popping up on most but not all of the third party applications we had running on the machine.

It was as if permissions were disappearing all over the place, for no discernible reason, in no discernible pattern. Going in and giving everyone 'read' permissions and rebooting the server seemed to fix it, but new examples of the root problem keep popping up. I just hope I don't get called in over the weekend. The good news is that it looks like Spirit Will Be Perfect Again.

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Ross