OK, so if I want to enable a user access to their documents folder on the
local drive, which directory do I need to change rights on? I have already
granted rights to c:\users\myuser\ which I thought would be enough.
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
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> "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/
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