How to Restrict Access to Folders on a Second Drive

From: Robert (sunite1701@netscape.net)
Date: 02/19/03 

From: "Robert" <sunite1701@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:22:26 -0800

Still looking for an answer on how to restrcit access to
folders that are not under the
c:/Documents and Settings/username area. Below is a
previous thread about this issue, but it is still
unresolved. The drive is NTFS however the "Make this
folder Private" checkbox only works on folders under the
users profile/home directory. I want to restrict access
to directories on another drive - I could do this under
Windows NT 4 (Workstation so Microsoft should have left
the same capability in the lastest and greatest OS.
Seems they have taken a step backwards in the area of
Security unless someone has an idea that I have not
thought of. Of course third-party applications are an
option, I just hate paying extra for functions that
should be supported by the OS.

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"robert" <sunite1701@netscape.net> wrote in message
>news:016e01c2d08d$ac1c57e0$d6f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA13...
>> How can I restrict access to directories that are not
>> under my users profile. I have the "My Documents"
>> restricted under the profile and I also want to
restrict
>> access to directories that I have made on a second hard
>> drive. Is that possible with Windows XP Home - I could
>> do it before with WIndows NT, but microsoft appears to
>> have gone backwards by removing this capability
>
>Hi Robert,
>
>You need to have the disk formatted with NTFS to set
permissions on the
>disk. If the disk is FAT or FAT32 you will not be able
to set any
>permissions.
>
>If it is NTFS, you can set permissions by right clicking
on the folder and
>going to the security tab.
>
>To change a FAT or FAT32 disk or volume to NTFS, use the
CONVERT command
>line utility.
>
>eg.
>
>CONVERT D: /FS:NTFS
>
>Regards,
>
>Tim
>
>
>.
>

This does not work - the drive is already NTFS - however
the "Make this folder Private" checkbox is grayed out and
not selectable. That only appears to work users profile
c:/Documents and Settings/username/foldername. Does
Microsoft offer a way around this obvious flaw. Is there
a patch?

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