Rob Naylor
April 20th 03, 10:26 AM
I have an administrator account and the rest of the family logs on as basic
users.
My son undertstandably doesn't want me to have the ability to poke around in
his files , so took ownership of his folders/files and changed access rules
to deny them to administrators. This was fine until he wanted to load some
of the legacy executable files he had in these folders. As a basic user he
could not load these.
The fist time he wanted to load software, he took off the "deny" option for
administrators on his folders, and we then switched accounts and I installed
the applications which I'd previously been unable to see for him. He then
put the "deny" administrator access back on from his own account. After
logging out, when he tried to log back in again, he was denied access to his
account.
Fortunately, we'd creted a restore point, so got things back again quickly.
The next attempt to load applications, I temporarily made his account an
admin account. He allowed access to his folders to administrators/ everyone
and loaded his required applications himself. He then logged out, I logged
in as administrator and reconfigured his account to be a basic user only.
At this stage all users still had access to his files ( I checked that I
could see his folders/ run his applications from my admin account. He then
went back into his (now again basic user only ) account and once more set
the permissions to deny access to administators.
From what I can see, the situation should now have been axactly as it was
prior to loading the applications...is, he has access to his acount but I
can't see his folders when logged in as administrator. However, once
again, having logged out and tried to log back in, he finds that he can't
access his account, and I'm faced with going back to a restore point.
Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong here?
Rob
users.
My son undertstandably doesn't want me to have the ability to poke around in
his files , so took ownership of his folders/files and changed access rules
to deny them to administrators. This was fine until he wanted to load some
of the legacy executable files he had in these folders. As a basic user he
could not load these.
The fist time he wanted to load software, he took off the "deny" option for
administrators on his folders, and we then switched accounts and I installed
the applications which I'd previously been unable to see for him. He then
put the "deny" administrator access back on from his own account. After
logging out, when he tried to log back in again, he was denied access to his
account.
Fortunately, we'd creted a restore point, so got things back again quickly.
The next attempt to load applications, I temporarily made his account an
admin account. He allowed access to his folders to administrators/ everyone
and loaded his required applications himself. He then logged out, I logged
in as administrator and reconfigured his account to be a basic user only.
At this stage all users still had access to his files ( I checked that I
could see his folders/ run his applications from my admin account. He then
went back into his (now again basic user only ) account and once more set
the permissions to deny access to administators.
From what I can see, the situation should now have been axactly as it was
prior to loading the applications...is, he has access to his acount but I
can't see his folders when logged in as administrator. However, once
again, having logged out and tried to log back in, he finds that he can't
access his account, and I'm faced with going back to a restore point.
Anyone have any ideas what is going wrong here?
Rob