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I'm using winxp pro sp2.
That being said, this is my quandary. For about a year, my PC was mine, and noone else used it. At all. I never cared about folder permissions, or any of that stuff.
Now I live in a house with my girlfriend and 2 of my friends, and I have volunteered my computer to be in a common room, for not only my own use, but for the occasional use of the other people in the house.
(one roomie uses linux exclusively, my other roomie uses a mac, and me and my girlfriend prefer to not have a computer setup in our bedroom)
The fact that two of my roomies use non-standard OS's is one of the reasons why I like having my PC in a common room.
ANYWAYS, here is my quandary.
I want to block access to view/modify/list/execute/etc etc of a folder to the other users on my computer, but that folder is NOT in the "my documents" folder, and I do not want it to be on the C drive.
It's primarily because the folder I am wanting with permissions for only my user account to see it, is going to be about 6 gigs in size, and if I put that in the "my documents" folder that will make the C drive too large to fit onto one DVD-9 when I do a backup image.
The problem is that if I set permissions to exclude the \USERS group from control, it also effectively sets those same permissions for my own user account.
Which is wierd, because my user account is NOT in the \USERS group, it is in the \Administrators group.
And yes, my user account is an administrator, thanks for asking, that's the first thing I would ask if someone were asking me.
Anyways, I must confess that I'm not sure how to set it so only user accounts who are located in the \Administrators group can access the folder. I'm sure it's a matter of my not knowing how to configure it. There is a lot of information in the windows help section on this topic, but it's a little daunting.
I think that somehow the problem is relating to my never having done that before, the obscure way folder permissions are set in windows, and something to do with inheriting permissions from the parent folder.
I don't want to just put that folder into the "my documents" folder, because it will be quite large, about 7gigs, and I don't need or want to back it up when I do a periodic image of my C drive. I experimented with simply changing the location of the "my documents" folder to be in a drive other than C, but well.............that would mean a lot of "fixing" application data locations, etc.....
Trinity........ help?
That being said, this is my quandary. For about a year, my PC was mine, and noone else used it. At all. I never cared about folder permissions, or any of that stuff.
Now I live in a house with my girlfriend and 2 of my friends, and I have volunteered my computer to be in a common room, for not only my own use, but for the occasional use of the other people in the house.
(one roomie uses linux exclusively, my other roomie uses a mac, and me and my girlfriend prefer to not have a computer setup in our bedroom)
The fact that two of my roomies use non-standard OS's is one of the reasons why I like having my PC in a common room.
ANYWAYS, here is my quandary.
I want to block access to view/modify/list/execute/etc etc of a folder to the other users on my computer, but that folder is NOT in the "my documents" folder, and I do not want it to be on the C drive.
It's primarily because the folder I am wanting with permissions for only my user account to see it, is going to be about 6 gigs in size, and if I put that in the "my documents" folder that will make the C drive too large to fit onto one DVD-9 when I do a backup image.
The problem is that if I set permissions to exclude the \USERS group from control, it also effectively sets those same permissions for my own user account.
Which is wierd, because my user account is NOT in the \USERS group, it is in the \Administrators group.
And yes, my user account is an administrator, thanks for asking, that's the first thing I would ask if someone were asking me.
Anyways, I must confess that I'm not sure how to set it so only user accounts who are located in the \Administrators group can access the folder. I'm sure it's a matter of my not knowing how to configure it. There is a lot of information in the windows help section on this topic, but it's a little daunting.
I think that somehow the problem is relating to my never having done that before, the obscure way folder permissions are set in windows, and something to do with inheriting permissions from the parent folder.
I don't want to just put that folder into the "my documents" folder, because it will be quite large, about 7gigs, and I don't need or want to back it up when I do a periodic image of my C drive. I experimented with simply changing the location of the "my documents" folder to be in a drive other than C, but well.............that would mean a lot of "fixing" application data locations, etc.....
Trinity........ help?