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by phil02 1 view

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Hi all,

I am looking for a way to hide certain folders from general users but make them available to the department who made the folder.
The main folder is shared out over the network and there are 7 subfolders - I would like all users to see 2subfolders and the department to see all 7 subfolders.
Encrpytion is not an option as the department is sectioned into an NT\W2k group.
IS it possible at all?

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by curacao_dejavu

First, I would have probably done it the other way around. I would have shared the subfolders to the users ( would be 2 mappings for the users) and the main folder to the department.

Right now there is a possibillitie that you can remove the listright (properties, permissions, advanced, list) from the users on the remaining 5 folders. In theory they shouldn't be able to see the 5 folders.

This should work (I did it only once).

success
Leopold.

by phil02

Unfortunately sharing out these 2 folders separately is not possible as we will have the same structure of this folder created for other depts - ie dept 1 folder contains the same subfolders as dept2 folder as so on. The management of these individual network shares would become huge.
Thanks for replying

by magetower

Two solutions:

1. Like the previous answer you can create shares that point to the folders you want available to all users and make them map to those shares. Then limit the permissions on the original share to all the folders to only the needing department.

2. (can be used in conjuntion with one) Set the file/directory permissions for the primary folder to: Department (full access), Everyone (list). Then set the permissions on the department only folders to Department (full access) and remove the Everyone group. (Do not change the Everyone to No Access as this will block out EVERYONE!)

The second configuration will let everyone see that there are 7 folders in the share but they will only be able to access the 2 that have not been limited to the department.

by phil02

This is the current setup with NTFS permissions but was looking for a way to hide the actual folder.

Thanks for replying

by jdieffenbacher

Create groups with User Manager for Domains on the PDC for each department that you want to have access to the folders. Then put the user names in the corresponding groups. After this is finished, share out the folders only to the groups you want to see them. Better to share out the folder to the groups than individual users as this should be less maintence.

by phil02

Unfortunately sharing out these 2 folders separately is not possible as we will have the same structure of this folder created for other depts - ie dept 1 folder contains the same subfolders as dept2 folder as so on. The management of these individual network shares would become huge.
Thanks for replying

by bhrdwh

hi, there are two ways,
1.use NTFS Security by having the folders for department in NTFS partition & adding only your specific users to NTFS Security. This way other general users get "ACCESS DENIED" on your department fodlers & they cant get intothem.
2. Other way is rename them as "Folder1$" & "Folder2$". Then map these to your department users thru login script or Explorer. "$" ensures that they are "hidden" from being seen as shared folder. However users who know about "$" can get in.
Akash

by phil02

Unfortunately sharing out these 2 folders separately is not possible as we will have the same structure of this folder created for other depts - ie dept 1 folder contains the same subfolders as dept2 folder as so on. The management of these individual network shares would become huge.
Thanks for replying

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