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03-28-2008
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| | Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents 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. Tim |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents The Vista folders beginning with "My" are not real folders. They are junctions (shortcuts) which point to the corresponding folder e.g. "My Music" points to "Music". The Junction Points are in Vista for backward compatibility of pre-Vista applications. Pre-Vista applications (applications written for XP and 2000) look for folders that are no longer used in Vista. Folders with the “My” prefix such as My Documents, My Pictures, and so on. There are also folders in your user profile that have been changed in Vista, and pre-Vista apps might be looking for the old folder structure during installation. If you don’t set the option to Show Hidden Files in Windows Explorer, you will rarely even see the Junction Point folders. ------- *Report back, please* [When responding to posts, please include the post(s) you are replying to so that others may learn and benefit from the issue] [How to ask a question] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "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. > > > Tim |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents "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 -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents 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: Quote: > "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 > > -- > Kerry Brown > MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration > http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ > > > |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents See: Sharing files with the Public folder http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...5c2de1033.mspx ------- *Report back, please* [When responding to posts, please include the post(s) you are replying to so that others may learn and benefit from the issue] [How to ask a question] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "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: > Quote: >> "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 >> >> -- >> Kerry Brown >> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration >> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ >> >> >> |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents In Vista, the "Documents & Settings" has been replaced with "\Users" and "My Documents" has been replaced with "Documents". So the user documents are now stored in C:\Users\(login)\Documents The user should have no problem saving to this folder, or to any of the other folders under his login folder. Most of the familiar XP standard folders are now junction points. -- Vista Home Premium 32 SP1 http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview "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. > > > Tim |
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03-28-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents 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: > Quote: >> "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 >> >> -- >> Kerry Brown >> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration >> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ >> >> >> |
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03-31-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents 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: > > Quote: > >> "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/ > >> > >> > >> |
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03-31-2008
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| | Re: Access to \Documents & Settings\User\My Documents 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/ >> >> >> >> >> >> |
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