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Granting access to NTFS drive
Hello all.
I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional). Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about doing this? TIA Adeel |
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Granting access to NTFS drive
Adeel wrote:
I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional). Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about doing this? Interesting. I'm not 100% sure this would work - but - you would need to grant everyone their rights back first.. Then connect to machine (1) - grant the admin full rights to every file/folder. Then connect to machine (2) - grant the admin there full rights to every file/folder. Remove the "everyone" group. Now see what happens. It could be that when looking at file/folder permissions on one machine - you see an unknown-SID that has permissions. If so - then the same should be true when you connect tot he other machine - just a different unknown SID. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Just add administrators to the access control list. Then any administrator
[built in administrator or member of administrators group] on either computer can access the files. --- Steve "Adeel" dontWantSpam@All wrote in message ... Hello all. I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional). Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about doing this? TIA Adeel |
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Thanks for your response Shenan.
I have XP home on the second machine... and as a result there is no security tab. So I can't grant full control to the admin account on it. What do I do now? TIA Adeel |
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Granting access to NTFS drive
Adeel wrote:
I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional). Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about doing this? Shenan Stanley wrote: I'm not 100% sure this would work - but - you would need to grant everyone their rights back first.. Then connect to machine (1) - grant the admin full rights to every file/folder. Then connect to machine (2) - grant the admin there full rights to every file/folder. Remove the "everyone" group. Now see what happens. It could be that when looking at file/folder permissions on one machine - you see an unknown-SID that has permissions. If so - then the same should be true when you connect to the other machine - just a different unknown SID. Adeel wrote: Thanks for your response Shenan. I have XP home on the second machine... and as a result there is no security tab. So I can't grant full control to the admin account on it. What do I do now? I think Steven's response may work.. Give it a shot. (Although - if you boot into safe mode - you have the security tab.) Steven L Umbach wrote: Just add administrators to the access control list. Then any administrator [built in administrator or member of administrators group] on either computer can access the files. --- Steve -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Thanks for replying Steve...
Where would I find this 'access control list'? TIA Adeel |
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I think Steven's response may work.. Give it a shot.
(Although - if you boot into safe mode - you have the security tab.) Thanks Shenan... booting into safe mode did the trick. It got me the security tab. And the rest of the process was just the way you said it would be. Thanks again for your help Adeel |
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Granting access to NTFS drive
Adeel wrote:
Hello all. I have a portable NTFS formatted harddrive. I replaced the default 'everyone' access with 'my computer\administrator' access while the drive was hooked up to my desktop computer (XP professional). Now I want to allow another user (my notebook's administrator) to access it as well. So that only my two computer's administrator users could access the disk. My notebook has XP home edition on it. How do I go about doing this? TIA Adeel Try the FaJo XP File Security Extension (XP FSE) It's free and gives XP Home (Prof and w2k) a security tab. http://www.fajo.de/portal/index.php?...=6&It emid=47 Sjoerd Visser |
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Sjoerd Visser wrote:
Try the FaJo XP File Security Extension (XP FSE) It's free and gives XP Home (Prof and w2k) a security tab. http://www.fajo.de/portal/index.php?...=6&It emid=47 Interesting tool. Going to check it out. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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The access control list is where you manage permissions via the security tab
by adding users/groups and giving them the needed permissions and per response to Shenan it sounds like you all ready have done it. --- Steve "Adeel" dontWantSpam@All wrote in message ... Thanks for replying Steve... Where would I find this 'access control list'? TIA Adeel |
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Yes, I have successfully resolved the original problem.
Now the trouble is that every administrator can modify the permissions and grant himself access via the same procedure (although I just granted access to two specific accounts, one on each machine. And removed the everyone group). Is there any way I could restrict access to just two specific administrator users... and disallow everyone else (including other administrators) from granting themselves the access? TIA Adeel |
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Adeel wrote:
Yes, I have successfully resolved the original problem. Now the trouble is that every administrator can modify the permissions and grant himself access via the same procedure (although I just granted access to two specific accounts, one on each machine. And removed the everyone group). Is there any way I could restrict access to just two specific administrator users... and disallow everyone else (including other administrators) from granting themselves the access? If you added the specific usernames (and they were not the default "administrator") and not the group (administrators) - then only those usernames will have access. However - anyone with admin rights on a machine owns it.. They can TAKE ownership away and give themselves rights. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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If you added the specific usernames (and they were not the default
"administrator") and not the group (administrators) - then only those usernames will have access. However - anyone with admin rights on a machine owns it.. They can TAKE ownership away and give themselves rights. I suppose this is what is happening... ownership transfer. I did grant access to specific administrator users only (not the admin group, not the default account). A new admin cannot directly open the disk but they can grant themselves the access by opening the security tab and adding themselves. I suppose there's no way to keep that from happening? Thanks for all your help Adeel |
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Adeel wrote:
If you added the specific usernames (and they were not the default "administrator") and not the group (administrators) - then only those usernames will have access. However - anyone with admin rights on a machine owns it.. They can TAKE ownership away and give themselves rights. I suppose this is what is happening... ownership transfer. I did grant access to specific administrator users only (not the admin group, not the default account). A new admin cannot directly open the disk but they can grant themselves the access by opening the security tab and adding themselves. I suppose there's no way to keep that from happening? Thanks for all your help Adeel Nope |
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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 though. --- Steve "Adeel" dontWantSpam@All wrote in message ... If you added the specific usernames (and they were not the default "administrator") and not the group (administrators) - then only those usernames will have access. However - anyone with admin rights on a machine owns it.. They can TAKE ownership away and give themselves rights. I suppose this is what is happening... ownership transfer. I did grant access to specific administrator users only (not the admin group, not the default account). A new admin cannot directly open the disk but they can grant themselves the access by opening the security tab and adding themselves. I suppose there's no way to keep that from happening? Thanks for all your help Adeel |
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