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Prevent access to particular folders
LockedI am looking to be able to protect a folder from particular users. The folder contains videos recorded by the store monitoring cameras, and so we would like to prevent users from being able to view, edit, or delete the folder.
Since the folder is constantly accessed by the camera software, I don’t think that compressing and password-protecting the folder will work, because then the program will be unable to save files to the location. Also, even password protecting the folder with additional software would probably present a problem and not allow the camera software to access the folder.
The PC is running WindowsXP Pro, and it is on its own network and workgroup, so AD is out of the question.
I have played with gpedit enough to know that I can restrict access to the drive altogether, but this is not ok because I need the manager of the computer to be able to access the folder to check to make sure that the videos are being recorded.
Any ideas on how I can achieve such permission rules?
I would also like to prevent limited users from being able to access particular folders such as C:\Windows, but not prevent essential processes or programs from running automatically.