How To Restrict File Access With Win 2000?

[Rubicone]

Where exactly is this option and how does it work? I have also noticed that I can access the folders and files from the C drive where I have Win 98 SE installed, is there a way of preventing this?

 

[TBP]

NTFS

 

[potz]

you can't do anything about it. you can change it to ntfs, but then you wouldn't be able to boot win98. you could hide the partition, but then win98 won't boot. there's nothing you can do about it unless u use ntfs, which is only for windows nt/2000.

 

[Rubicone]

But is the file restriction feature of Win 2000 loaded only during the istallation process when solely NTFS is used? Where is this located and how does one apply it?

 

[kyoshozx]

You need to use NTFS to restrict file access. Since you mentioned its the harddrive for win98, win98 doesn't support NTFS only FAT32 so there is no way you can restrict file access.

To access it just right click on the folder or drive you want to restrict access to, click on the security tab and you should see a list of users and permissions. If you want to restrict access of a particular group just remove it from the list. Be extremely careful with the Deny access permission as it will overwrite all other permissions.

 

[Noriaki]

<< But is the file restriction feature of Win 2000 loaded only during the istallation process when solely NTFS is used? >>

Win 2000 can only perform file permissions on NTFS partitions. FAT32 has no provision for security. And yes it does have to be a feature of the File System. But it doesn't have to be done during Win2000 install. You can convert a FAT32 partiton to NTFS. Go to the command prompt and type &quot;convert /fs:ntfs X:&quot; (without quotes) and then X: will become NTFS then you can apply file permissions. But Win98 can't boot off of (or even read) an NTFS partition.

 

[obenton]

As long as C: is your win9x drive, you can convert your w2k disk to NTFS, as was pointed out, with the &quot;convert&quot; command. The w2k partition could still could be accessed from win9x by anyone using a program like &quot;NTFS for Windows 98&quot; by sysinternals. However, you could set NTFS security settings to restrict its file/directory accesss.