Re: Permissions on Shared Files

From: Keith Langmead (klangmead_at_nospam.kms.co.uk)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:25:40 +0100

Yes that is possible (just tested it on our network here).

To do it, give all of the groups access to the root folder (NTFS and Share
permissions), then on each of the subfolders, go into the security (NTFS)
permissions on each folder, and de-select the 'Allow inheritable permissions
from parent to propagate to this object', so you can change the permissions.
Remove all of the groups except those you want to have access. Repeat with
each sub-folder.

You'll then find that each user can access the main share, and will see all
the sub-folders, but will get an access denied on all folders except the one
they've been given permissions to.

Keith

"Michelle T" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2d62e01c46b1d$63137660$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I was hoping someone could help me with an small issue
> I'm having with assigning permissions to users.
>
> This is my situation...
>
> I have a shared folder on the network with a number of
> subdirecotires (lets say one for each country) and I have
> created groups of users for each of those country
> folders. The problem I'm having is that I only want the
> users to be able to view the folder for the country that
> they're allowed to access (ie not to see all the other
> subdirectories in the share, I've tried a number of
> different permission settings including denying list
> folder contents, but I keep getting access denied at the
> top level shared folder.
>
> Please can someone help me out, I'm going around in
> circles, and I'm convinced I'm just missing something
> simple.
>
> Many Thanks in Advance for any help.
>
> Reagrds
>
> Michelle T

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