Allow File Read Access but prevent copy

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Sharon Hill

Hi

We have put some documentation files on a shared drive in
workgroup. We also put a documentation viewer software in
the same location. We want to allow users to execucte this
file and access the documentation. We were able to
accomplish this very easily.

However how do we prevent users from making copies of these
documentation files? We only want them to read, but not
make copies.

Any help?

Sharon
 
Sharon said:
We have put some documentation files on a shared drive in
workgroup. We also put a documentation viewer software in
the same location. We want to allow users to execucte this
file and access the documentation. We were able to
accomplish this very easily.

However how do we prevent users from making copies of these
documentation files? We only want them to read, but not
make copies.
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I might be incorrect, if so, someone call me on this..

With NTFS, if you can read, you can copy.. And in your case, you can read
and execute - copying is easy. =(

The ONLY thing I can think of is that the viewer itself (the way they view
the files) is called with some wrapper as another user of your choice and it
is that user, not the user actually running the app - that has the necessary
permissions to access the files and they can therefore only browse the files
using the viewer.. And that also assumes that they cannot then use the
viewer to save the files anywhere - either with a file->save action or while
they are using the explorer interface of said application to pick the file
they want.
 
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