NTFS and Folder Permissions

[jfall]

I am running Windows XP, workgroup.. with 3 user profiles. I have 1 hard drive seperated into two partitions (both are NTFS).

On the second partition, I made a folder for each user and we each put all our music/videos/other files in our own directories.. it just makes it easier if I ever have to re-install windows, I can just reformat the other partition so none of our person files are affected.

I want to make it so that each person's folder on that partition is private. So, when they login I want them to be only able to access their folder and no one elses on that drive. How can this be done?

I tried right clicking the folder and going into share, but the option to make the folder private is greyed out. I read a bit up on it, and for that particular method you can only choose to make your document & settings folder private, which isn't what I want. Is there another way I can do this? Keeping in mind, we are all computer administrators, so were on the same group level, so I can't use anything that gives access to the folders by group level. It has to be by who is logged in, or possibly a password (but that could get kind of annoying)

 

[jfall]

nevermind, got it all figured out now. Just had to turn off the simple file sharing.

 

[bolsen]

Just remember to take Admins out of the access list if you don't want others to see in the folders.

I don't think this is a good idea, in case you want to get rid of the folders in the future.

I guess tho, you could just make a master account that only you know about which has admin rights to those folders...

Permissions... soo much fun!

 

[Woodchuck2000]

That said, if everyone has administrative rights, they can just grant themselves access to the folders anyway. This kind of thing only really works with restricted user accounts.

 

[kursplat]

That said, if everyone has administrative rights, they can just grant themselves access to the folders anyway. This kind of thing only really works with restricted user accounts

would "power user" be a better way of allowing more folder acsess without sharing too much control over the system ?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
That said, if everyone has administrative rights, they can just grant themselves access to the folders anyway. This kind of thing only really works with restricted user accounts.

Or each user was looking to encrypt their files....

I don't think this is a good idea, in case you want to get rid of the folders in the future.

I guess tho, you could just make a master account that only you know about which has admin rights to those folders...

Not true, if you set the folder's permissions so that only one login can access it a user with admin rights could take ownership of the folder and than reassign permissions as they saw fit.

-Spy

 

[jfall]

I got it working the way I want it anyway.. I know they could change the permissions, but they wouldn't have the first clue how 🙂

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: jfall
I got it working the way I want it anyway.. I know they could change the permissions, but they wouldn't have the first clue how 🙂

You could also turn easy file sharing and permissions back on, that is not a per-user setting. That would make it even harder for them to figure out... 😀

-Spy