Granting access to NTFS drive

Thanks Steve,

Actually, the disk in question is an external portable disk... so any
restrictions I apply on my computers would be limited to them. And
when if I hook it up to someone else's machine, their settings would
take effect. Right?

But of course, you're right... this doesn't mean I should leave it all
wide open on my personal machines.


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Thanks for all your help
Adeel



"Steven L Umbach" wrote in message
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You can use Group Policy to hide the security tab [user
configuration/administrative templates/Windows components/Windows
Explorer] ,deny the user access to the command prompt and registry
editing, and remove administrators from the user right for take
ownership of files and that will dissuade most users but a skilled
administrator will be able to find a way to undo the restrictions if
they want to. That does not mean it is not worth trying
hough. --- Steve

In that situation you are correct and any user that is a local administrator
on another computer could access those files. The only way to keep such
files confidential would be to use encryption such as the built in EFS
encryption in XP Pro. EFS encryption should not be used however unless you
know all the hazards of it and how to backup your EFS private key to a
password protected .pfx file or you could loose permanent access to your own
files. --- Steve


"Adeel" dontWantSpam@All wrote in message
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Thanks Steve,

Actually, the disk in question is an external portable disk... so any
restrictions I apply on my computers would be limited to them. And when if
I hook it up to someone else's machine, their settings would take effect.
Right?

But of course, you're right... this doesn't mean I should leave it all
wide open on my personal machines.


--
Thanks for all your help
Adeel



"Steven L Umbach" wrote in message
...
You can use Group Policy to hide the security tab [user
configuration/administrative templates/Windows components/Windows
Explorer] ,deny the user access to the command prompt and registry
editing, and remove administrators from the user right for take ownership
of files and that will dissuade most users but a skilled administrator
will be able to find a way to undo the restrictions if they want to.
That does not mean it is not worth trying hough. --- Steve

Thanks a ton Steve... your suggestions and help has been invaluable to
me. I *really* appreciate it...

I guess EFS would probably be overkill in my situation. I don't have
anything super-secret on my disk. I'll stick to the basic stuff for
now...


Thanks again.

Cheers
Adeel

"Steven L Umbach" wrote in message
...
In that situation you are correct and any user that is a local
administrator on another computer could access those files. The only
way to keep such files confidential would be to use encryption such
as the built in EFS encryption in XP Pro. EFS encryption should not
be used however unless you know all the hazards of it and how to
backup your EFS private key to a password protected .pfx file or you
could loose permanent access to your own files. --- Steve