Re: How to Map root level folders in Windows

From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 03/30/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:45:16 GMT

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:53:03 -0800, Ken
<Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Background:
>In Netware I can map a drive letter to a root level folder for all users.
>Example:
>map root g:=\\server\sys\share (there is no rights given to this folder
>for users)
>Users receive the "g" drive and folders below share are visible to users if
>they have rights to folders below share
>This works well, users only see the folders that they have rights to and one
>drive letter works for all.
>
>My question is:
>I would like to do the same thing on a NT/2000 domain or AD for users. The
>problem is that all users can see all folders below share even if they don't
>have permissions to them.
>Example:
>net use g: \\server\share (users have read permission to the share and list
>folder permissions)
>
>Problem:
>Users see all folders under share even if they only have permissions to one
>folder under share. This is not really a security issue because users can't
>access the other folders under share but... I don't want to confuse the
>users with all of these extra folders that they will now see.

You can't do a map root in Windows. You need to rearrange your
folders, or provide separate shares to the levels neded.

Jeff

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