"Tim Gowen" <TimGowen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:AD686E35-7881-4431-811F-A8EE55787C28@xxxxxx
Quote:
>A Vista Business user cannot get access to his My Documents folder on the
>C:
> drive. Normally I encourage people to use the H: drive but in this case I
> need to allow that user access to C:.
>
> Is this a Vista security feature for domain member systems? Can I get
> around it by giving the user access to his user directory in Documents &
> Settings? I tried to do this but changed rights in C:\Users which seems
> to
> be a link to the other folder and so the rights didn't work.
>
> I'm fairly new to Vista; we only have one non-Admin using it, hence the
> simple question.
>
>
There is no "C:\Documents and Settings" folder in Vista. It is a junction
pointing to "C:\Users". You can't access it as it's not a real location.
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/Security/junctions.aspx
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Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/