Network Folder Properties

[olds]

Is there a way to have a folder on a Network that only gives other users the ability to Read (not edit) and Copy (not move) the files?

Some people like to take my work and "use" it as theirs.

Or if it's a company wide file that I maintain for others use, instead of copying the file they move it from the folder. (I have explained the difference between Copy/Move but sometimes they don't pay attention)

We use Novell if that makes a difference.

TIA

 

[drebo]

"Read-only" will pretty much do what you want.

 

[her209]

What's stopping someone from opening the read-only document and doing a copy & paste into a new document and claiming it as theirs?

I'm not familiar with Novell permissions, but with NTFS permissions, you can set the Read permission but not the Write permission on a file or folder, and that will prevent users from moving or editing the files.

 

[Nothinman]

You can set it up so that they can write to a file but not delete it to fix the move issue, however I believe all of the MS Office apps use temp files in the document directory for saving so it won't work for them.

But if they can open and read the file, they can copy it. That's a fight the audio, video and imaging industries have been fighting with for years and there's no solution. The best you can do is tag them somehow, a guy at my last job used to put his name/date in like .00001% font at the bottom of his Visio drawings so he could tell when someone stole and reused them.

 

[drebo]

What's stopping someone from opening the read-only document and doing a copy & paste into a new document and claiming it as theirs?

I'm not familiar with Novell permissions, but with NTFS permissions, you can set the Read permission but not the Write permission on a file or folder, and that will prevent users from moving or editing the files.

That's the exact same thing.

Read-only means they can look at and copy the file, but not edit or delete it. Hence why it's called Read-only.