Re: Shared drive VS Security

From: Stephan St-Denis (stephans_at_progicielsconcept.com)
Date: 09/19/05

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    Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:29:59 -0400

    "Paul Adare" <padare@newsguy.com> wrote in message
    news:MPG.1d98f41a8b732786989e84@msnews.microsoft.com...
    > In article <eu26DfVvFHA.3960@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>, in the
    > microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Stephan St-Denis
    > <stephans@progicielsconcept.com> says...
    >
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> Being new to the Windows Server family, I'd like to know hoe to do the
    >> folowing thing :
    >>
    >> On my server 2003, I have a drive (named DATA) on which I put important
    >> company data ; database files and other documents, located in a few
    >> folders,
    >> that are accessed only using an in-house program. Let call the program
    >> INHOUSE.EXE
    >>
    >> INHOUSE.EXE must be able to access the entire drive (e.g. read, write
    >> files,
    >> directory creation and so on...).
    >>
    >> Each user on the network running XP pro have a copy of INHOUSE.EXE.
    >>
    >> Now my question is :
    >>
    >> How can I share the drive in order to let INHOUSE.EXE access all the data
    >> but restrict all users from accessing the same shared drive ? I don't
    >> want
    >> those users to be able to access the drive and extract the data without
    >> the
    >> use of the program.
    >>
    >> Is there a way to do that ?
    >
    > What security context does this application run in? If it is running in
    > the user's security context, then no, there's really nothing you can do
    > here.
    >
    > --
    > Paul Adare

    Paul,

    I'm not sure to know what the security context is. Can you give me an
    example ? All I can say, is that the user opens a session on the server 2003
    as a domain user.

    Regards,

    Stephan

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