If you could document the process involved it would help. Start by how you
created the user (e.g. is this a local user or a domain user?), how you
redirected the Documents folder, how you created the local Documents folder
on C:. etc. Note that Vista does not have a "My Documents" folder but a
"Documents" folder. The terminology may be important.
--
Kerry Brown
MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
"Tim Gowen" <TimGowen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8F098A3A-E2CB-4D31-B126-6B5771233F24@xxxxxx
Quote:
> All my users have their home directories set to H:\ but that doesn't
> normally
> prevent access to their My Documents on the C: drive. In XP I tend to
> direct
> their My Documents to H: which, again, doesn't shut off access to the
> profile
> on C.
>
> This particular user will have an H: drive just like everyone else but his
> access to My Documents on C is denied, and I can't work out why.
>
> Tim
>
> "Kerry Brown" wrote:
> Quote:
>> I'm not understanding something. A user automatically has permissions to
>> use
>> the folders in their profile. How did you end up in this position? If you
>> detail the steps of how you got here we may be able to offer a fix. It
>> sounds like you have redirected their documents to H: (possibly a network
>> location) and now want to change this back to the default location on C:?
>>
>> --
>> Kerry Brown
>> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
>> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>>
>>
>>
>> "Tim Gowen" <TimGowen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:19CCC22A-3EAF-4DFE-9422-B3F25A9CCA04@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > 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:
>> >
>> >> "Tim Gowen" <TimGowen@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:AD686E35-7881-4431-811F-A8EE55787C28@xxxxxx
>> >> >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
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Kerry Brown
>> >> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
>> >> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >>