Restricting Folder Permissions ?

[Bob]

Need some advice on setting permissions....

I want to let USERS on a win2003 server access a folder on a
non-system hard drive. However, I don't want them to have access
to anything else on the drive, just that particular folder. The
folder is right off the root of the drive and they should have
access to that folder and anything below it.

I know how to give them access (full control) to the folder. But, what
(minimal) permissions do I need to give them to the root of the drive
to get them to that folder ?

Thanks,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Need some advice on setting permissions....

I want to let USERS on a win2003 server access a folder on a
non-system hard drive. However, I don't want them to have access
to anything else on the drive, just that particular folder. The
folder is right off the root of the drive and they should have
access to that folder and anything below it.

I know how to give them access (full control) to the folder. But, what
(minimal) permissions do I need to give them to the root of the drive
to get them to that folder ?

Thanks,

You need to give them read access to the root. If this is
not what you want then you could create a substituted
drive or a shared connection to that folder.

 

[Bob]

You need to give them read access to the root. If this is
not what you want then you could create a substituted
drive or a shared connection to that folder.

You mean the old DOS SUBST command ? Where would I set it up? Can I do
it such that it's visible to all users if I want it global?

What do you mean by "shared connection to that folder"? I tried to
share the sub folder then have the (locally signed on) user connect to
that share but I got a "network not found" message. There seemed to be
an issue using a share on the same machine I was logged in on (Network
and other shares were working fine before and after).

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You mean the old DOS SUBST command ? Where would I set it up? Can I do
it such that it's visible to all users if I want it global?

What do you mean by "shared connection to that folder"? I tried to
share the sub folder then have the (locally signed on) user connect to
that share but I got a "network not found" message. There seemed to be
an issue using a share on the same machine I was logged in on (Network
and other shares were working fine before and after).

There is no DOS under Win2000 (DOS is an operating
system) but there is a "Command Prompt". You can place
a batch file into the Startup folder of "All Users" with these
lines inside:

@echo off
subst S: d:\SomeFolder

Drive S: will now be visible to all users.

The same goes for a shared connection. Start by creating
a share, e.g. like so:

net share Data=d:\SomeFolder

then create a batch file much like the one above:

@echo off
net use S: \\%ComputerName%\Data /persistent:no