Making a Slave Drive inaccessible to other users.

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To anyone with the knowledge,
A two part question

Part 1: Is it possible to make one of my HDD inaccessible to other users on
the same system? The User accounts will be "limited" accounts and I want to
protect the slave drive from being accessed by other users.

Part 2: If the slave drive is configured as an extra storage device (Not
containing the OS) is it possible to create "My folders" and user profile
folders that would not be able to be opened or seen from other limited
accounts?

Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.
 
You don't say if you are using Home or Pro but if you are using ntfs file
system you can configure ntfs permission so that the regular users that you
do not want to have access have no access via lack of permissions. A user
would need at least read permission to open and read files. Having said that
keep in mind that an administrator or anyone who can become an administrator
[legitimately or otherwise which is easy to do] can always access files on
the computer that are not encrypted properly. A user who can access your
hard drive from outside of the operating system could also access the data
if the data is not properly encrypted which could be as simple as booting
from a cdrom with something like Bart's PE which is a mini version of
Windows XP burned on a cdrom. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- XP ntfs
permissions.
 
Steve,

I'm running Home. After I posted yesterday I did a little more digging and
found Microsoft shared computer toolkit. Downloaded it and it is doing
everything I need it to. Thanks for helping out the uninformed.

Steven L Umbach said:
You don't say if you are using Home or Pro but if you are using ntfs file
system you can configure ntfs permission so that the regular users that you
do not want to have access have no access via lack of permissions. A user
would need at least read permission to open and read files. Having said that
keep in mind that an administrator or anyone who can become an administrator
[legitimately or otherwise which is easy to do] can always access files on
the computer that are not encrypted properly. A user who can access your
hard drive from outside of the operating system could also access the data
if the data is not properly encrypted which could be as simple as booting
from a cdrom with something like Bart's PE which is a mini version of
Windows XP burned on a cdrom. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- XP ntfs
permissions.

TheWakingOne said:
To anyone with the knowledge,
A two part question

Part 1: Is it possible to make one of my HDD inaccessible to other users
on
the same system? The User accounts will be "limited" accounts and I want
to
protect the slave drive from being accessed by other users.

Part 2: If the slave drive is configured as an extra storage device (Not
containing the OS) is it possible to create "My folders" and user profile
folders that would not be able to be opened or seen from other limited
accounts?

Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.
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Sounds good. The Shared Computer Toolkit is a huge plus for XP Home
computers for those that have needs to restrict users using technologies
that are normally found in XP Pro. --- Steve


TheWakingOne said:
Steve,

I'm running Home. After I posted yesterday I did a little more digging
and
found Microsoft shared computer toolkit. Downloaded it and it is doing
everything I need it to. Thanks for helping out the uninformed.

Steven L Umbach said:
You don't say if you are using Home or Pro but if you are using ntfs file
system you can configure ntfs permission so that the regular users that
you
do not want to have access have no access via lack of permissions. A user
would need at least read permission to open and read files. Having said
that
keep in mind that an administrator or anyone who can become an
administrator
[legitimately or otherwise which is easy to do] can always access files
on
the computer that are not encrypted properly. A user who can access your
hard drive from outside of the operating system could also access the
data
if the data is not properly encrypted which could be as simple as booting
from a cdrom with something like Bart's PE which is a mini version of
Windows XP burned on a cdrom. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- XP
ntfs
permissions.

TheWakingOne said:
To anyone with the knowledge,
A two part question

Part 1: Is it possible to make one of my HDD inaccessible to other
users
on
the same system? The User accounts will be "limited" accounts and I
want
to
protect the slave drive from being accessed by other users.

Part 2: If the slave drive is configured as an extra storage device
(Not
containing the OS) is it possible to create "My folders" and user
profile
folders that would not be able to be opened or seen from other limited
accounts?

Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.
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