Making personal folder private in WinXP

[Nole7]

Currently, anyone who logs on to my machine (and this can be a network user logging on to the domain) can see all of the files in my personal directory (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\user name).
How do I make this directory private so that no one besides me can get access to it?

Anyone know?

 

[VinylxScratches]

Right click your My Documents folder on the desktop, click properties, then click the Sharing tab. There is a checkbox for making the folder private.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Make suer you're computer is actually on the domain and make sure the group policy is applied.
go to a command prompt and type in "gpupdate /force"

If you actually have a domain, then I hope the administrator has set policies up that restrict user access.
If you have an IT dept definately call them and let them know as there is a serious issue with security on your network.

 

[Nole7]

Originally posted by: VinylxScratches
Right click your My Documents folder on the desktop, click properties, then click the Sharing tab. There is a checkbox for making the folder private.

I'm there and can't see it.

 

[VinylxScratches]

I missed the domain part... sorry. That might be different. Is this at home or at a company? If it's at a company then it's a group policy setting that whoever is administrating can do.

 

[Nole7]

Thanks guys. Let me check what the netadmin says.

 

[Nole7]

I resolved the issue with NTFS permissions, which was a nice little review on that. I hadn't realized that private folders aren't available on a domain computer.

Thanks for your help.

 

[MadRat]

So you're saying you use a roaming profile and your personal files are on the network?