Restrict user to everything except a shared folder and 1 applicati

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I wanted to setup a user in Windows XP Pro that would have remote access to
my home computer from their computer with only limited access to the C: drive
and not all of the other external USB drives (drive F, G, H, etc...) , as
well as only access to a shared documents folder on C: without access to most
of the other data on C: . I also wanted to allow them to run a few selected
programs thereby accessing and changing data in those few programs without
access to most of the remaining drive. Is there a fairly easy way to achieve
this?
 
If the drives are formatted via NTFS then give the user permissions to only
the needed folders/application. For Remote Desktop access you would need to
remove everyone/users from the folders you do not want them to access or
give the user/group explicit deny access though I would not mess with
\windows folders and subfolders. If they are accessing "shares" via a VPN or
ipsec tunnel then you simply can control share permissions to give the users
needed access and only share out the folders you want them to access. I
would also look at installing the free Shared Computer Toolkit on your
computer and you can further restrict the users for Remote Desktop/local
logon. The links below may help. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308418 --- NTFS
folder/file permissions
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sharedaccess/overview.mspx --- shared
computer toolkit
http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/ntfs_and_share_permissions.shtml
 
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