I am having trouble getting Bypass Traverse checking working on my Windows 2003 EE server in a Windows 2003 domain. I have set Bypass Traverse Checking to Authenticated Users via Group Policy. However I have a service account that can not delete a file in the C:\Temp folder. The service account has Modify permissions to the C:\Temp folder and no permissions to C:\ Theoretically it should traverse C:\ and be able to find C:\Temp If I give the Service account the NTFS permission of "Travers Folder \ Execute File" the service account can then delete the file in the C:\Temp folder. I do not understand this as Bypass Travers Checking should give the same results. The following TechNet article states "Traverse folder takes effect only when the group or user is not granted the Bypass traverse checking user right in the Group Policy snap-in". http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/e4be109f-5547-4df8-90f0-4d885dc302e7.mspx Any idea on why Bypass Travers Checking does to appear to be applied?