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What is the best way to secure a redirected My Documents folder?
We just recieved 160 student laptops by way of a grant. Every student has their own folder on a student server and their My Documents folder is redirected to that folder.
The path is \\10.1.1.40\student$\
When they logon, a folder is automatically created for them. Everything is working fine, but some of the kids have found that if they open My Documents and then click the UP arrow, they can eventually get back to where they can see everyone elses Folders.
Is there an option where I can redirect this folder as ROOT so that they cannot use the UP arrow at all? Would that be somewhere under folder redirection or somewhere else in Group Policy?
Also under the folder redirection area in Group Policy I removed the checkmark that the user has ownership or sole ownership over their folder. This was because when this was checked, even administrators could not view the contents of their folders unless we took ownership. Would rather not have to do that and right now we don't have to.
I guess if we could solve the first issue with them using the UP arrow then we wouldn't really have to worry about that part.
Thanks for any help!
Matt
The path is \\10.1.1.40\student$\
When they logon, a folder is automatically created for them. Everything is working fine, but some of the kids have found that if they open My Documents and then click the UP arrow, they can eventually get back to where they can see everyone elses Folders.
Is there an option where I can redirect this folder as ROOT so that they cannot use the UP arrow at all? Would that be somewhere under folder redirection or somewhere else in Group Policy?
Also under the folder redirection area in Group Policy I removed the checkmark that the user has ownership or sole ownership over their folder. This was because when this was checked, even administrators could not view the contents of their folders unless we took ownership. Would rather not have to do that and right now we don't have to.
I guess if we could solve the first issue with them using the UP arrow then we wouldn't really have to worry about that part.
Thanks for any help!
Matt
Change the NTFS permissions on the root of the share to only allow Administrators. If they press the up arrow, they won't have permission to view the root folder. I just checked my setup and this is what I'm doing.
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Phillip,
If I change permissions on the root folder to only administrators, will it trickle down to all the student folders as well? I don't want to block the kids from their folders either...
Will each student automatically have ownership rights on their own folder so that it won't matter if I change it to administrators only?
Thanks,
matt
If I change permissions on the root folder to only administrators, will it trickle down to all the student folders as well? I don't want to block the kids from their folders either...
Will each student automatically have ownership rights on their own folder so that it won't matter if I change it to administrators only?
Thanks,
matt
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You have to disable inheritance of permissions from parent folder on each home directory in order to implement Diablo's solution.
Or, even better, give only Administrators Full Control on the parent folder and the students Change permissions on their folder ONLY. With this second option, you can leave the inheritance on.
ie:
D:\users\ (administrators: Full Control)
D:\Users\Student1 (administrators:Full control)
(student1: modify)
Or, even better, give only Administrators Full Control on the parent folder and the students Change permissions on their folder ONLY. With this second option, you can leave the inheritance on.
ie:
D:\users\ (administrators: Full Control)
D:\Users\Student1 (administrators:Full control)
(student1: modify)