Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents

[Tim Gowen]

A Vista Business user cannot get access to his My Documents folder on the C:
drive. Normally I encourage people to use the H: drive but in this case I
need to allow that user access to C:.

Is this a Vista security feature for domain member systems? Can I get
around it by giving the user access to his user directory in Documents &
Settings? I tried to do this but changed rights in C:\Users which seems to
be a link to the other folder and so the rights didn't work.

I'm fairly new to Vista; we only have one non-Admin using it, hence the
simple question.


Tim

 

[Kerry Brown]

A Vista Business user cannot get access to his My Documents folder on the
C:
drive. Normally I encourage people to use the H: drive but in this case I
need to allow that user access to C:.

Is this a Vista security feature for domain member systems? Can I get
around it by giving the user access to his user directory in Documents &
Settings? I tried to do this but changed rights in C:\Users which seems
to
be a link to the other folder and so the rights didn't work.

I'm fairly new to Vista; we only have one non-Admin using it, hence the
simple question.

There is no "C:\Documents and Settings" folder in Vista. It is a junction
pointing to "C:\Users". You can't access it as it's not a real location.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Security/junctions.aspx

 

[Tim Gowen]

OK, so if I want to enable a user access to their documents folder on the
local drive, which directory do I need to change rights on? I have already
granted rights to c:\users\myuser\ which I thought would be enough.

 

[Dave]

In Vista, the "Documents & Settings" has been replaced with "\Users" and "My
Documents" has been replaced with "Documents".
So the user documents are now stored in C:\Users\(login)\Documents
The user should have no problem saving to this folder, or to any of the
other folders under his login folder.

Most of the familiar XP standard folders are now junction points.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I'm not understanding something. A user automatically has permissions to use
the folders in their profile. How did you end up in this position? If you
detail the steps of how you got here we may be able to offer a fix. It
sounds like you have redirected their documents to H: (possibly a network
location) and now want to change this back to the default location on C:?

 

[Tim Gowen]

All my users have their home directories set to H:\ but that doesn't normally
prevent access to their My Documents on the C: drive. In XP I tend to direct
their My Documents to H: which, again, doesn't shut off access to the profile
on C.

This particular user will have an H: drive just like everyone else but his
access to My Documents on C is denied, and I can't work out why.

Tim

 

[Kerry Brown]

If you could document the process involved it would help. Start by how you
created the user (e.g. is this a local user or a domain user?), how you
redirected the Documents folder, how you created the local Documents folder
on C:. etc. Note that Vista does not have a "My Documents" folder but a
"Documents" folder. The terminology may be important.