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| | Disable Search Functionality. Hi, I have a folder which I want to be completely inaccessible by anyone but one user. There are only two users on my system, one is only in the Guest group and the other is an administrator. I disabled all functionality on this folder for the Guest group through the security tab and it worked insofar as the Guest user not being able to list, read, write, etc. However, when I use the built in search functionality when logged in as the Guest, the Guest user seems to still have list privileges. By that I mean I open Windows search (windows+f) and search for a string which I know to exist in a file in the folder and the search returns the file in the folder. Though the user can't read, write to, or see the properties of the file they can still see the name, which I do not want them to be able to do. Is there a way to disable their ability to use the search to find files they have no privileges on or alternatively a way to disable search functionality for certain users. I've been through secpol.msc and gpedit and haven't found anything. Thanks |
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| | Re: Disable Search Functionality. So you should remove "list" if you really want to protect this content that much. Sounds like you could have gotten the content in the index already so maybe you should rebuild the index, just to be safe. I would also go the added length of opening the indexing option and explude the folder from the index specifically. to do this use the "indexing options" control panel applet. josh Windows Connected "Gerry Jackson" wrote in message Microsoft Corporation... Quote: > Hi, > > I have a folder which I want to be completely inaccessible by anyone but > one user. There are only two users on my system, one is only in the Guest > group and the other is an administrator. I disabled all functionality on > this folder for the Guest group through the security tab and it worked > insofar as the Guest user not being able to list, read, write, etc. > However, when I use the built in search functionality when logged in as > the Guest, the Guest user seems to still have list privileges. By that I > mean I open Windows search (windows+f) and search for a string which I > know to exist in a file in the folder and the search returns the file in > the folder. Though the user can't read, write to, or see the properties of > the file they can still see the name, which I do not want them to be able > to do. > > Is there a way to disable their ability to use the search to find files > they have no privileges on or alternatively a way to disable search > functionality for certain users. I've been through secpol.msc and gpedit > and haven't found anything. > > Thanks > |
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