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NTFS Deny Delete permission issue

I support a company that have a Windows Server 2003 domain environment w/ windows 7 client PC's. Recently the company has asked me to disallow a specific user to delete any files in a shared folder on the server called DATA. So I went to security on this folder and set the DENY DELETE and DENY DELETE SUBFOLDERS AND FILES for this specific user.

The user cannot delete anything which is good, but it also has caused a bad side effect of leaving behind temp office 2007 files (ex: A36432A0.tmp) whenever user modify's a word or excel doc. Why is this happening. What would be the way to not let this specific user delete files but also not leave behind these annoying temp files that are rapidly accumulating.

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RussPitcher

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pjasnos

If someone has modification privileges to a given file, they effectively delete it by just emptying the file or filling it with zeros, so I would stronly suggest making that directory read-only for that user.
If you want to have a solution which gets rid of temp files while still having the files writeable would be to use something alike UnionFS in Linux. There's an application called WinUnionFS which implements the re-direction of any write requests to a read-only directory to a different directory - you can modify it to instead re-direct any creations/writes to tmp files based on their names, but you obviously need a litttle programming experience in C/C++. All the heavy-lifting of kernel-mode filesystem filter drivers is handled by Dokan library, meaning that you don't need to be an experienced programmer to make this work.
http://code.google.com/p/winunionfs/

Note: You cannot use Windows 7 Libraries for this, as they are shell objects and therefore most applications would still create temp files in your directory.

Also, depending what application is it, you can perhaps try re-configuring it to store it's temp files elsewhere?

Dave4125

This user is supposed to be able to edit the documents, just not delete them entirely?