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by pkiefer

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We noticed, much to our surprise, that our WIN2K and WINNT4 PC's that are built on FAT32 do not honor user profile security. Our PC's built on NTFS do not have this problem.

The problem we see is that when logging into a FAT32 WIN2K (or WINNT4) machine, any user can access the My Documents section for any other user on the machine even though they have rights as low as "guest".

Is there any alternative to correct this problem other than converting to NTFS?

Please advise.

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by timwalsh

No. You can only apply permissions at the file and folder level when using NTFS. FAT32 doesn't offer any security features.

by timwalsh

There really isn't any reason not to convert to NTFS. It gives benefits beyond just the security aspects (i.e. fault tolerance capabilities, compression).

by gigelul

WinNT4 don't work on FAT32 only FAT16 or NTFS. Converting to NTFS is the best solution also for the future. If that is not an option, you can try to work only with shares but is hard.

by gigelul

I convert to NTFS using command and all was OK. No data damage. You have any reason for not converting to NTFS?

by pkiefer

Thanks for the comments, but I elected to award the points to the first response.

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