Can you turn off "drag and drop" in server 2003

[Seanyyc]

Afternoon,
I am an owner of a small company with 50 people and a couple of servers with server 2003 on them.

Our file server is MS server 2003, 32bit.

We have 10 clients and a directory for each one on, lets say drive M:. In each of those 10 directories there are more project directories. We have 50 people working in these directories all day.

My problem is that some people have "cowboy hands" they do an accidental drag and drop and whole directories get moved to another directory. Is there any way of turning off the drag or drop?

I know that one solution is training of people and the other is creating a drive for each client, but there are only so may drive letters available. I think you can turn off "write" rights but then people will not be able to save their work.

Any ideas would be great.

CHeers,
Sean

 

[w33mhz]

well an easy solution is to go into the properties of the shared directory in question that hold all the files and folders that they are using and go to the security tab (I'm sure you know this ), then click the advanded button at the bottom. Highlight the user(s)/group(s) in question, and click the edit button. This will bring up the special permissions dialog. Scroll down till you see delete and select the deny check box. This way they can write and modify but not delete.
How this helps you is that when someone has "cowboys hands" and drags and drops a folder into another folder and the original is gone, this is called a MOVE (yes I'm sure you know that it is a move, but bare with me). In order for a MOVE to happen it must COPY then DELETE. Thus a solution to your problem if they are denied access to delete then they can't move the folders just copy them. Now this could bring around a headache for you with folders being copied around and people getting confused which documents they need to be editing. You'll need to keep a handle on the duplicates that will arise.
Although your only dealling with 10 directories probably not going to be a big deal to manage.

 

[PaulGillespie]

I've had this problem a few times too but not found a workable solution to it. Can you lock down the permissions so that staff can't move a folder to another one that they don't have permission to?