limiting access to folders on slave drive

[Kevin Miller]

XP Professional has the "Make this folder Private" option
that works only for C: drive folders. I cannot get it to
work for folders on my E: or F: slave hard drive folders.
The button is grayed out. How do I protect these folders
from being shared with other users on my computer?

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[Roger Abell]

If you use NTFS as the filesystem then you can set
permissions on that drive/partition either
- using cacls at a cmd prompt
cacls /? provides syntax for this
- using the security dialog in a safe mode boot
or
- by shutting off simple file sharing at bottom of
the View tab in Folder Options so that the
security dialog is available in a normal boot

http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=307874
http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=308418
http://support.microsoft.com/?ID=308419

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I am wondering where I would get instructions on how to
accomplish these procedures below. What is calcs? How do
I use security dialog in safe mode?

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[Roger Abell]

The second of the three links previously provided
has listed steps for accessing the security dialog.
All options available in cacls are listed using the
previosuly posted directions, to start / run cmd and
then enter
cacls /?
This is a little terse, so as an example
cacls "c:\program files\some app folder" /e /t /g users:c
will ( /g ) grant to the Users group Change permissions
starting at c:\program files\some app folder
and will ( /t ) do this for all subfolders and files,
and will ( /e ) not change any grants already existing