Advanced Public Folder Persmissions

[archer007]

Hi. I want to make my Public share in Vista "one-way" by preventing rewriting or deletion of any file by anyone except me. Is there any way to do this? As far as I can see, Vista offers only two cookie-cutter sharing options: read-only or full access.

 

[smah]

Yes, Public folder sharing is intended to be just that - public. If you want more granular sharing capabilities, manually share some other folder. See this guide

http://www.home-network-help.com/vista-file-sharing.html

 

[linney]

Sharing files with the Public folder

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/2f8b4639-9ef3-4a21-996a-615989b5c2de1033.mspx

File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727037.aspx

Are you able to do this via the usual File Access Permissions of the folder, setting them to suit your purpose?
Can you use Encryption, or even something like passwords in a zip file such as in WinZip?