permissions question.

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Gordon Burgess-Parker

My User is a member of the Administrators Group and NOT, (according to the
Users pane in Admin Tools) a member of the Users group.

I have my outlook pst in a non-standard location on a different partition. I
wish to restrict access to it, as there are other users set up on the
computer, as members of the Users Group only.
if I "deny" access to the Users Group, I can't access my pst, although, as I
have said, my User is NOT a member of the "Users" group! What is going on?
 
R. McCarty said:
Why not just assign a password to the .PST ?
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yes, I certainly could do that - I'm interested in why the specific
permissions setting didn't work.......
 
Try - instead of denying access to the whole user group, just deny access to
the specific user you don't want to have access to it. Add each user and
deny them.
 
purplehaz said:
Try - instead of denying access to the whole user group, just deny
access to the specific user you don't want to have access to it. Add
each user and deny them.
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That is in fact what I have done - I was interested as to why I couldn't
access it, although I am NOT a member of the Users group specifically. Are
Administrators members of the Users group implicitly?
 
Here is a quote from a Tech-Net article
Important Be careful when using Deny. Deny takes precedence over Allow.
Applying Deny to the Everyone group might close the resource to that level
of access by anyone, including the Administrator.
 
R. McCarty said:
Here is a quote from a Tech-Net article
Important Be careful when using Deny. Deny takes precedence over
Allow. Applying Deny to the Everyone group might close the resource
to that level of access by anyone, including the Administrator.
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Is Everyone the same as Users then?
 
Gordon Burgess-Parker said:
That is in fact what I have done - I was interested as to why I couldn't
access it, although I am NOT a member of the Users group specifically. Are
Administrators members of the Users group implicitly?
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I think admins also fall in the users group by default.(I may be wrong
though). If you made a new group, called friends(or whatever) and put all
those users in that group and gave that group only user rights, I believe
you could then just deny that whole friends group.
 
purplehaz said:
Everyone is everyone. Users, admins, power users, etc..... all groups
and all users.
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I knew what the Everyone group was in W2K - my XP installation doesn't have
an "Everyone" group, just a "Users" group. Are they equivalent?
 
Gordon Burgess-Parker said:
I knew what the Everyone group was in W2K - my XP installation doesn't have
an "Everyone" group, just a "Users" group. Are they equivalent?
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Oh sorry. That I'm not sure of, but that's a good question.
 
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