How can I get access to files and folders on my portable drive on other computers?

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How can I get access to files and folders on my portable drive on other computers? Dmitry Kopnichev 07-12-2005
Posted by Dmitry Kopnichev on July 12, 2005, 3:46 am
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Hello
How can I get access to my files and folders on my portable drive on other
computers? I do not want to give access to a Windows XP group because I
don't want
Administrators of our domain have direct access to my files on the drive.
They will not take ownership because I will see the taking. I want to get
access by a password.


Posted by S. Pidgorny on July 12, 2005, 5:16 am
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Use a 3rd-party security/encryption software - needs to be installed on each
computer where you're using your drive

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

> Hello
> How can I get access to my files and folders on my portable drive on other
> computers? I do not want to give access to a Windows XP group because I
> don't want
> Administrators of our domain have direct access to my files on the drive.
> They will not take ownership because I will see the taking. I want to get
> access by a password.
>



Posted by Roger Abell on July 12, 2005, 10:21 am
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Still struggling with this hey Dmitry ?

Since you cannot install anything on the machines where this
will be used, you really need to just use NTFS.

To get it set up you will for a while have to have a grant to a
built-in group, like Users, unless you can log in as an admin on
each machine where use is needed.
1. set full control for Users on the external NTFS
then on each system where it will be used
2. set full grant to the account used on that system
when doing this
2a. the grants to accounts from other systems are known only
on the other systems and so will show up as SID strings or
as Unknown - leave them alone.
3. when you set the grant to the last account, on the last system
where this will be used, remove the grant of Full to Users
that was only needed in order to be able to make the grants
to the specific users
Whatever temporary group, like Users above, used to build
up the desired permissions must be understood on each system
so it must be a builtin group that will include the account you
log in with on each system.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)

> Hello
> How can I get access to my files and folders on my portable drive on other
> computers? I do not want to give access to a Windows XP group because I
> don't want
> Administrators of our domain have direct access to my files on the drive.
> They will not take ownership because I will see the taking. I want to get
> access by a password.
>



Posted by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] on July 12, 2005, 11:21 am
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> Hello
> How can I get access to my files and folders on my portable drive on
> other computers? I do not want to give access to a Windows XP group
> because I don't want
> Administrators of our domain have direct access to my files on the
> drive. They will not take ownership because I will see the taking. I
> want to get access by a password.

Roger's reply re NTFS is correct. However, if you're trying to bypass your
network admins, and you are not officially one yourself, I can't help you.
If the data isn't supposed to be on your computer/on the network, don't do
it.



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