This is exactly the information I needed. Thankyou very much.

"Brian Cryer" wrote in message
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"Robin Tucker" wrote in message
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Hi,

I would like to be able to log access to my folders from the network.
That is, I want to know when an administrator has accessed my drive. I
have private/confidential information on my PC and do not want
administrators to be able to access it, unless I give explicit
permission. How can I achieve this?

Thanks,


Robin.

Robin,

I don't think you can log access to folders. I've certainly not come
across a way to do it.

In terms of preventing administrators or any others from accessing your
folders, there are a few options:

1. Use file permissions. Using windows explorer, right click the folder
you want to protect, select properties. Then on the "Security" tab you
have control over who has permissions to view, edit, etc on the folder. To
stop system administrators I think you will need to revoke access to
"Administrators". But review each of the permissions because I think the
logic is to grant access to someone if they have access via any of the
accounts/groups listed. You will also need to consider permissions on the
files themselves. If you can't view or change the security permissions
then its likely that the system administrators have locked this out -
after all, fiddling with the file permissions in say the windows folder
and you could break your system.

2. Encrypt your files. If you have your disk formatted NTFS then you can
encrypt files (file properties general Advanced), but if you encrypt a
file then I think that only you can read it - which isn't any good if you
need to share the file with anyone else.

Hope this helps,

Brian.

www.cryer.co.uk/brian