Re: prevent users from deleting files

Brian K <BrianK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a small XP workgroup with 1 machine sharing out all our files.
I would like to prevent users from deleting files and folders on this
machine. I have created a user account with limited rights on the XP
workstation with the share. My users map to that share using the
limited user account. When I try to go into security on the folder
and check deny the delete and delete subfolder, the users are unable
then to rename a new folder they create, What am I doing wrong and
what is the work around. PS when I go to advanced security and look
at the effective permssions everything looks good.

Brian

You can make everything read only, but you can't stop them from deleting
files if you want them to be able to rename stuff.
Make sure you do good regular backups!


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