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 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

 

[Jeremy]

Unfortunately the answer is quite ugly. If you absolutely don't want them
to be able to drag their folder into someone else folder you have to assign
permissions and userid's to each student. Then the permissions would be
admin full, userid full, everyone none. Then when they try and move the
folder to someone else's they will get a security error. But creating all
the user-ids, maintaining them can be worse than what you already have. You
could also write a script or batch file that scans the directory of the
folders and if it finds a username not where it should move that folder
back. but you would still have students and teachers calling depending on
what time your script ran.

 

[jonnin]

you can create shortcuts to each folder and put those
where the students can see them. Then accidents will not
move the real folder, just the shortcut, and you can
easily make a new shortcutl. Teachers should be able to
make a new shortcut as well. if you make the shortcut read
only, a drag and drop should ask "do you want to move the
read only file 'shortcut to jobob'?" so at least they
would have a warning...