making folders unmovable

[Anne]

I work in a school where we are running XP Pro stations on a Windows 2000
server with all user files stored on the server. All user folders are read
only to try to prevent accidental deletion or moving by students (the method
we used successfully under Windows 98.) However under XP we get a warning
message if we move or delete folders on the server but not on the stations.
Is it possible to prevent folders being moved / deleted by accident or to
make folders unmovable?

Thanks
Anne

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Adjust the permissions on the files so that the user's don't have complete
control. Only read/write access.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Adjust the permissions on the files so that the user's don't have complete
control. Only read/write access.

And note that this requires that:

The machines run XP Pro
It is using NTFS not FAT32
and that Folder Options - View is set not to 'Use Simple File Sharing'

 

[Anne]

Thanks. I've already tried that. It certainly stopped them being moved or
deleted but it also prevented users from creating new files. Did I miss
something?

Anne

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Did you allow read, write and modify? In some cases, you need to assign
permissions to the user, as well as their group. One permission setting can
override the other. On the Security tab, make sure you click the Advanced
button. Then when you select a User or Group, you'll get more options for
permissions.

 

[Anne]

With read, write, modify permissions users can delete and move read only
folders without getting any warning message. With read and write but no
modify permissions, the folders are fixed but users can't create new files -
a 0 byte file is created and the user get a message saying the file exists
and can't overwrite it. There are also 0 byte temporary files created called
fsaA~.tmp where ~ is a number. The only exception is when using Word XP when
everything behaves as I want. With all other programs (eg Excel, Publisher,
PowerPoint) the above happens.

Thanks again

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Look at the Advanced permissions. You'll find that there are other options,
including the ability to create new files.