Only view permission

[Guest]

I want to share a folder in my Network. Like that Users can open the files
and view its contents, but they can not copy those files.
If I am giving read permission to that folder then users are copying it.
But I don't want users to copy that.
If I am not giving read permission then users are not able to open it.
Please tell me.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I want to share a folder in my Network. Like that Users can open the files
and view its contents, but they can not copy those files.
If I am giving read permission to that folder then users are copying it.
But I don't want users to copy that.
If I am not giving read permission then users are not able to open it.
Please tell me.

There is no way.
If they can read a file, then they can copy it to any location that they have write permissions on.


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

I want to share a folder in my Network. Like that Users can open the files
and view its contents, but they can not copy those files.
If I am giving read permission to that folder then users are copying it.
But I don't want users to copy that.
If I am not giving read permission then users are not able to open it.

THere is no permission which will allow You to deny users to copy the
file - such permissions exists in other NOS like Novell but not in
Windows NTFS world

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

As the others mentioned, no this isn't possible, as long as you can read, if you
have a location you can write to, you can copy. This is where Digital Rights
Management comes into play which can control what you can do with media.