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Posted by John McGaw on May 16, 2008, 1:49 pm
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IsraelC from Miami wrote:
> Anyone know how to prevent users from deleting files/folders (Word/Excel
> files) but still allow them to edit and save them?
> I setup a test share on a Win2K3 Server. Remove all rights for all users
> except for the admin group. At the NTFS security tab I grant a group Modify,
> Read/execute, list, read and write permissions. Then in the advance/special
> permissions tab I enable the deny delete subfolders and files right. I then
> create a word doc and it allws me to create it and edit it but the temp file
> dont get deleted. If an Excel file gets edited and saved we get an error the
> the folder is marked as read only.
> So at a high level I wnt to prevent users from deleting MS Office docs but
> still edit them.
> I know the users can still open then and delete the contents of the file
> itself but I can live with that...any suggestions?
> Thank you,
>
Is there any requirement that they save them back to the same location and
under the same name? What happens if your requirement was met and the user
does not delete the file/folder but simply trashes all of the contents
instead -- nothing gained there from what I can see. I haven't tried it but
simply making the files read-only should force the users to save them under
a different name or in a different location protecting the originals which
other users could work with.
John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
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