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re: Server Shares and Permissions Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 8:20 am Posted by ganesh (2 messages posted) In our company we are following up the same procedure. When I joined the new company they use to Map a folder for a particular user so that he can get access to directly to that folder only whenever he logs in. Perform the following steps: You know how to create a user ID just right click on that particular user ID and click on properties In that you will get an option called as profile In that you have to select the drive letter which ever you want for example z: and profile path as :\\UserName\FolderName and click on Ok Then a folder will get created in your server by that user name. Whenever a user logs in he will get what he is suppose to On Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 1:02 am, tornado579 wrote: >Hi All, > >We have lots of folders on the Windows 2003 Standard edition server for our organization >which we share along with the users. We are controlling the access to these folders >with the help of NTFS permissions. They quite working well . When user logins to >his system he sees a shared drive (S:\) from this server and can also see all the >other folders which are shared although the permissions obliviously depends upon >their respective groups. > >But the new requirements that are coming up with after the discussion with the management >are like these: > >1. Directly map only the shared folders to which the user has access to and not the >whole S: root folder under which other folders are situated. In other words, only >show the folders to the users to which he has access too. > >2. Users should not be able to browse the root folders with the help of UNC path >which are there on the S: root folder. > >Can the above two new requirements can be fulfilled? If Yes, then how? Are there >any resources which you can point me too? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Server Shares and Permissions Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:14 am Posted by Ahmad Nasr (1 messages posted) Hello there, Inorder for your root folder (Main Shared Folder), go to Sharing -> Permissions and select Change & Read options then go to Security -> Permissions and remove all selected options. Regards,. On Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 1:02 am, tornado579 wrote: >Hi All, > >We have lots of folders on the Windows 2003 Standard edition server for our organization >which we share along with the users. We are controlling the access to these folders >with the help of NTFS permissions. They quite working well . When user logins to >his system he sees a shared drive (S:\) from this server and can also see all the >other folders which are shared although the permissions obliviously depends upon >their respective groups. > >But the new requirements that are coming up with after the discussion with the management >are like these: > >1. Directly map only the shared folders to which the user has access to and not the >whole S: root folder under which other folders are situated. In other words, only >show the folders to the users to which he has access too. > >2. Users should not be able to browse the root folders with the help of UNC path >which are there on the S: root folder. > >Can the above two new requirements can be fulfilled? If Yes, then how? Are there >any resources which you can point me too? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Server 2003 Discussion Forum