Novell

This question is very general, what exactly do you mean? Both systems support the "standard" file system rights of Read, Write, Create, Erase (delete), Find. By default, Win2K grants everyone access, and you have to restrict who has rights where.NetWare denies everyone access, and you grant them as needed.

With Win2K, if a user has access rights to a folder, but not a it's subfolders, they will still see the sub folder names, but they won't be able to access them. With NetWare, if a user has no rights to a folder, they won't even see that it exists.

Both system allow for creation of Groups of users, and file rights can be assigned to groups. Both also have provision in their user directories for containers of users (this is more a user directory management concept). With NetWare, containters can be granted file rights. With Win2K, they cannot -- you have to put all the users in a container into a gorup first.

Admins cannot be stopped from accesing files in Win2K. Using inherited rights filters in NetWare allows locking even admins from files/directories. of course, care must be taken...

HTH