Auditing File and Folder Access Denied Attempts

The company I work for wants to be able to review audit logs to see where people have failed to gain access to particular folders or files on a server, that is part of a DFS. I have enabled Auditing Object Access with Failures, and I have added the Everyone
group to Auditing on the folder, in which it audits all failures. However, when I review the Security Log to see those failed attempts to access a file, for example, I get a log of a success to the user who attempted to open the file, when in actuality, he
failed to open the file because he did not have rights to open it.
What am I doing wrong, or is this how Microsoft has auditing setup?

Yes, myself and a nother technician have been unable to get this to work in a test environment or the real environment. We've created new users with nothing more than Domain User membership, and only list rights to the folder, which is how the real production
folder is setup. We still do not get failure notices when the attempt to access a file they don't have rights to access.
It does however, tell them on the client end that they have been denied access. It just doesn't show in the log.

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this must be enabled on the folder you like to monitor. Steps in the following thread from the same question are still valid:
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