Access Denied and Bypassing Traverse Checking

If a folder is shared and the appropriate permissions were set for a specific user or group to access that share, yet the user is receiving access denied errors, you might need to check the settings for Bypassing Traverse Checking.

"Bypass Traverse Checking determines which users can traverse directory or file system folder trees even though they might not have permissions on the level of the traversed directory or file system folder hierarchy itself."

Here are list of articles that discuss the issue. This post might be updated in the future.

1) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/277644

2) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc739389.aspx