Oh, just in case: what that article doesn't tell you is that you'll find the results of the auditing in the security event log.
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Browse All TopicsI have an accounting folder that I am wanting to monitor.
I have it shared out to a select few.
I need to know successful and failed attempts on this folder.
I am not running AD.
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I've done that but it shows WAY too many entries in the Event Viewer.
I have filtered on Event ID 560 --- shows what I am looking for but seems to be logging every second or so.
I've had this running for 3 days now and I have 15000 entries. With only 10 people accessing this one folder.
Is there a better way?
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by: oBdAPosted on 2009-07-03 at 11:40:46ID: 24773868
Works just the same way as described here for XP: om/kb/3103 99
How to audit user access of files, folders, and printers in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.c