Windows XP Professional offers (in addition to the User Access control in Network Sharing )
also the possibility to control access to file via Security :
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Security is NOT available on disks drives / partitions, which are formatted in either FAT or FAT32. |
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On a disk drive / partition formatted in NTFS, you can assign “Security”, you also can use other features of the NTFS system : – disk / file compressing – disk Quota |
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By default, members of the group Administrators have “Full Control”, which includes all permissions. |
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Members of other groups (like “Users”) have only limited access permission : – they can read and execute files – they can NOT create / modify / delete files. Permissions defined for the disk / partition are also valid for all folders on this disk : the permissions are inherited. |
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Be aware of the “strength” of the “Deny” possibility : it will override ANY “Allow” permission defined for ANY other group. |
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Therefore, if you like to give access only to some users, remove the ALL access permissions for the group “Users” |
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For the disk or the folder, which should only be accessible for some users, select the button “Add…” |
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to make it easy, click on “Advanced” |
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Click on “Find Now”, then select the User or User Group, for which you are assigning the permission. |
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This copies the complete username / groupname (include the name of the user database) |
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This creates for the select user / group the default permissions (read / execute). If required, grant now additional permissions to enable write and modify. |
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If such a secured folder is inside a shared disk/folder, then the folder will be visible via the network. On trying to access the secured folder with a Username, for which no security settings were defined, the system will display the “Access |
