Subdirectory Access Control

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James

We are wanting to restrict the parent folder access to the
administrators only, and allow access to the
subdirectories based on group membership.

Example:

Directory -

D:\Data\DepartmentA
\DepartmentB
\DepartmentC

Groups -

DepartA
DepartB
DepartC

Desired end result -

DepartA cannot access D:\Data
DepartA can access D:\Data\DepartmentA

DepartB cannot access D:\Data
DepartB can access D:\Data\DepartmentB

DepartC cannot access D:\Data
DepartC can access D:\Data\DepartmentC

Everything we have tried either opens access to the parent
directory or does not allow access to the designated
subdirectory. Can anyone please assist me with this
challenge?

Thank you,

James
 
That's not going to work. If you need a structure like that, you could
share the subdirs and have the departments connect to the shares.

I suspect that you're used to Novell. Unfortunately Windows doesn't have
the neat "I can only see the directories that I can access" feature that
Novell does. The storage guys have told me they don't do that for
performance reasons.
 
Drew,

If I use shares what permissions are required at the
parent directory (D:\Data)if any?

Directory -

D:\Data\DepartmentA
\DepartmentB
\DepartmentC

Groups -

DepartA
DepartB
DepartC

Thank you,

James
 
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