locking out harddrive for a specific user account

[Riceninja]

im running windows 7 on both my main and my old comp that functions as a media server with 4 HDs, shared through homegroup. my 12 year old sister wants to use the media server for regular surfing, but i dont want her accessing the files on the media HDs. ive made an account for her, but i dont know how to block her access without locking my main comp from accessing it either. (ive tried to uncheck the write/read permissions from the "user" group on the HD properties>security tab, but that prevents the main comp from accessing that HD as well).

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

 

[WildHorse]

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[Riceninja]

i did that and blocked "users" group, but the problem is that blocks the other computer on the homegroup.

 

[n0tdan]

in xp and vista this is how i would do it. not sure if it's the best method but pretty sure it works.

right click the drive, properties, security tab, edit button, add button, advanced button, find now button, select the desired username from the list and click ok, click ok again, you should now be back on the second properties windows that is titles something like "Permissions for [Drive name here]". so at this point you should see user name you want to block in the list and can probably just check deny for all, then click ok when it says something about deny being above allow access. this should do it.

Good luck 🙂

 

[Jeff7181]

Best practice is to create a group and apply permissions to the group, then make users members of the group to apply the permissions to them.

*EDIT* Deny permissions trump allow permissions, so no need to remove her from the standard "All Users" or "Everyone" group.

 

[WildHorse]

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[Riceninja]

thanks guys, the permissions deny for specific user worked. i guess the missing link was deny>allow permissions.