[XP Home] Multiple users - Private folders/Drives?

[Palle Jensen]

Hello group,

Running: A Windows XP Home Edition.

I have 2 users and 4 drives.

One Administrator (me) and one limited account.

I want one of the drives to be non accesible for the person with the
limited account.

A have tried to right click on the folder and checked the properties,
but it seems like the only option of interest are greyed out.

http://diverse.ducktrucks.dk/private.gif

Is it possible to hide a drive for other users in Windows XP?

How?

Thank you in advance...

 

[Malke]

Hello group,

Running: A Windows XP Home Edition.

I have 2 users and 4 drives.

One Administrator (me) and one limited account.

I want one of the drives to be non accesible for the person with the
limited account.

A have tried to right click on the folder and checked the properties,
but it seems like the only option of interest are greyed out.

http://diverse.ducktrucks.dk/private.gif

Is it possible to hide a drive for other users in Windows XP?

It is not possible to do what you want natively in XP Home. You might
want to look at limiting what the users can do with either MVP Doug
Knox's Security Console or the MS Shared Computer Toolkit.

http://www.dougknox.com
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/default.mspx

An alternative would be to either 1) put the data on that drive in your
My Documents folder and make your My Documents private; or 2) zip the
data on that drive and password-protect the zip file(s).

Malke

 

[John John]

You can use CACLS at the Command Prompt to do that:

cacls driveletter:\ /e /r username

or with this:

cacls driveletter:\ /e /d username

or:

cacls driveletter:\ /e /p username:n

or even this:

cacls driveletter:\ /e /g username:n


Do cacls /? fo help on the command.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/cacls.mspx?mfr=true

John

 

[Palle Jensen]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/p
roddocs/en-us/cacls.mspx?mfr=true

OK thanks!

Does it also apply to Win XP Home? Page says Professional.

 

[John John]

OK thanks!

Does it also apply to Win XP Home? Page says Professional.

Works on XP Home also.

John