Help Urgently Required

[Martin Pearson]

Regarding permissions in Windows XP: I am the Assistant IT
Technician in a local school and my partner and I have
been given a project and are totally baffled by it!! Our
students are assigned their own folders in which to store
their work. The problem we are having is they accidently
keep dragging and dropping each others folders into their
own folders then wonder why they cannot find their work.
This is a real pain because the teachers cannot try to fix
the problem themselves so it is up to me. Is there a way I
can 'lock' the folders IN PLACE so they CANNOT be MOVED TO
ANOTHER LOCATION, but still give Read, Write and Modify
access to the folder. We are pretty certain that it has
something to do with advanced permissions but have not yet
come across anything that can help us. Thanking you in
advance.... If you can help but do not wish to reply on
the message board, please email me at
(e-mail address removed) Thanks again

 

[Roger Abell]

Martin,

When you are in the security dialog in the properties of a
folder click on the advanced button, and then highlight one
of the listed grants (ACEs) and click on edit.
Notice that there is a drop box for stating to what that ACE
will apply : this folder, subfolders and files; subfolders and
files; files only; etc. are some of the choices.
You would need to use permissioning at this granularity in
order to accomplish your objective.
For example, if the student is StuX and all students are in
the custom group StuGrp, then you would need to grant to
StuGrp list on the parent directory of the student folders
(with it applying to this folder only. perhaps also files if the
teachers drop files in there for the students). On the student
folders, for each you would want to grant two ACEs for the
respective StuX of the folder. One grants list on the folder,
subfolders and files; the other grants write/change on subfolders
and files.
You will need to experiment, but hopefully this gets you
pointed the correct direction.