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How do I restrict access to the C Drive?
My drive has two partitions. One is the C drive and the other is the D drive. My question is how do I restrict access to the C drive and yet allow access to my D drive. A user needs to log onto my computer remotely and I want him to access the D but now the C. Is this possible and if so could you please tell me how to set this up?
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Thanks
Are you talking about the file sharing service or remote desktop?
And what windows version please?
Tolomir
And what windows version please?
Tolomir
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2003 server. Remote desktop.
Does your computer got internet access, also for your remote user?
E.g. Gmail? Gmail allows to upload up to ~20 MB datafiles, rendering file sharing policies useless.
E.g. Gmail? Gmail allows to upload up to ~20 MB datafiles, rendering file sharing policies useless.
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My computer and his computer has internet access. I have never heard of Gmail.
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I don't think you can hide files on drive C: from that user in general. Your profile could be safe as long as you create a restricted user account for him, but since I'm uncertain what you want to hide from him, I see no general windows internal solution, most files on drive C are at least with default read access, making access quite easy.
If you really want to hide something, you could use EFS (encrypted file system: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-EFS-Windows-2003.html )
or a tool like truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/
Main Features:
* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.
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A Google approach to email.
Google Mail is an experiment in a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that you should never have to delete mail and you should always be able to find the message you want. The key features are:
* Search, do not sort.
Use Google search to find the exact message you want, no matter when it was sent or received.
* Do not throw anything away.
Over 2776.290713 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you will never need to delete another message.
* Keep it all in context.
Each message is grouped with all its replies and displayed as a conversation.
* No pop-up ads. No untargetted banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.
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I don't think you can hide files on drive C: from that user in general. Your profile could be safe as long as you create a restricted user account for him, but since I'm uncertain what you want to hide from him, I see no general windows internal solution, most files on drive C are at least with default read access, making access quite easy.
If you really want to hide something, you could use EFS (encrypted file system: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Understanding-EFS-Windows-2003.html )
or a tool like truecrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/
Main Features:
* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.
* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Tolomir
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Thanks Rich and Tolomir for your help
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