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January 10th 08, 09:21 PM
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Folder permissions on external drive
Hi I've been trying to work out the best way of doing this and have come to a total dead end. I have vista ultimate x64. And I have an external hard disk which I would like to use as a storage device for everything (music, pictures and individual docs of user's). The problem I am having is setting up folders for individual user's on the external drive and then setting the permissions of that folder so that only the user whose folder it is can view the files within (as well as the admin account)... simple user setup. But for the life of me, I cannot get this to work as all folders are viewable to everyone! I know in XP it was very straight forward. I am just lost as to why it isn't here? For information... the external HD is the Western Digital myBook drive. And it has been formatted with FAT32 (this was how it came). I suspect that this may be the problem (the FAT32)... but I would like to be sure before I lose everything... Thanks -- BigBro1980 
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January 11th 08, 04:13 PM
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Folder permissions on external drive
Yes, with NTFS, folder and file access can be controlled individually, You
may want to convert it to the NTFS. -- Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com "BigBro1980" wrote in message ... Hi I've been trying to work out the best way of doing this and have come to a total dead end. I have vista ultimate x64. And I have an external hard disk which I would like to use as a storage device for everything (music, pictures and individual docs of user's). The problem I am having is setting up folders for individual user's on the external drive and then setting the permissions of that folder so that only the user whose folder it is can view the files within (as well as the admin account)... simple user setup. But for the life of me, I cannot get this to work as all folders are viewable to everyone! I know in XP it was very straight forward. I am just lost as to why it isn't here? For information... the external HD is the Western Digital myBook drive. And it has been formatted with FAT32 (this was how it came). I suspect that this may be the problem (the FAT32)... but I would like to be sure before I lose everything... Thanks -- BigBro1980
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