keep users out of my documents in win2k?

[Overload]

How can i keep users out of my documents and other files or folders. as administrator i right clicked on my documents and in sharing i gave admins and power users full access. then i added users and clicked deny for everything. i added a user and logged in but still had access to all of my documents. How do i deny user(s) access to files\folders???

[RedDeathDrinker]

I just installed 2000 last night, so I'm no expert yet.....

Did you format your drive to NFTS?

What level of access did you give the other users?

How did you set the access rights up?

[pcgirl]

Were the users you created power users? If so, that's why they're able to access the documents. You said you gave power users full access....might want to change that to only admins. Remember, NTFS permissions override sharing permissions...

[Oni]

If everybody logs in as like a User or something, and you as Administrator (and the ONLY administrator), then just use EFS (Encrypting File System) on the documents and folders that you don't want them to have access to. You have to be running NTFS though.

[Overload]

i am using NTFS and i am the only administrator. the user i added i put in the users group. how do i use/setup EFS?

[RedDeathDrinker]

Right click on the document/file you want to protect, and in the bottom left will be a "inherited permissions" tick box. Make sure that it's un-ticked, and add/delete users as you want.........

[Overload]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
Right click on the document/file you want to protect, and in the bottom left will be a "inherited permissions" tick box. Make sure that it's un-ticked, and add/delete users as you want.........

i dont see this " inherited permissions" box???

[RedDeathDrinker]

Here's the screenshot.......

After right clicking on the file/folder, and selecting the security tab.

See the small tick in the bottom left? Click it away......

You can then set the permissions in the column of tick boxes to whatever you wish, without the permissions of the folder above cancelling them out.................

[Kingslayer]

Allowing parent permissions will accomplish you nothing. All that does is give the file the same permissions as the folder that it is kept in, which is that files parent.

Take the file that you want, right click and go to security. Take everything out of the window. Click add, then find your username and then hit add. Then assign the properties that you want that permission to have, more than likely, full control.

This will ensure that you and only you can have access to that file.

And here's a tip, if your logged in as someone else and need that file, hold the left shift key down, and right click on it and select Run as.... That will bring up a log in window just log in with this format

localmachine\username
password

And it will run like you are logged in.

[Overload]

this is what i get

[Kingslayer]

Yes, that is what you want. You have added the user Administrator. You can tell that by the icon to the left of Administrator. It is one head. Two heads indicate a group. Remember that because if you do this in the future and add the Administrator with the two heads, anyone that signs in with Admin privileges will have access to your files.

[Overload]

i figured it out. thanks for the help everyone.