Folder Password Protection

[cygnustech]

We have a number of excel files in which we need to have stronger password protection than what excel provides.

We currently have a system in which we use a specific login name and password for each computer we have.

Would it be possible to password protect folders so that, it would prompt us for another user name and password and would only let us in if we entered it correctly. For instance if I was logged into computer1 as "usrnmcomp1", and I tried to click on a folder we need protected, I would like it to prompt me for a new username and password. Could this be done? Is there a better way to protect these files? Obviously having seperate usernames and passwords for every person would be ideal, but this method is not possible for us at the time.

Any advice would be helpful.

 

[wallst32]

I'm not sure if this meets your requirements, but you could create new users/passwords for the folder you want to protect.

So let's say usernmcomp1 logs into computer1. For the folder you want to secure, instead of granting usernmcomp1 permissions to it, create another account, such as "exsecure". Grant exsecure to the folder, and not userncmcomp1, and the that user needs to supply additional authentication.

 

[cygnustech]

Our admins tried this and we couldn't get it to work. I got an "Access is denied" message when I clicked on a protected folder. Are you sure this method works? I can't really be sure of what our admins are doing on there end, they may have just messed up.

 

[cygnustech]

Anybody else have any comments on this? We are still looking for a solution

 

[cygnustech]

We partially got this working. We created a new username and only gave that username permission to a folder we created on a server. We then mapped to the folder on every workstation, and provided the username and password when we mapped to it. This is where the problem arises on some workstations. After mapping the folder, it opens fine on every workstation, but when I log off, and log back in right away, on some workstations an "Access is denied" message box pops up when I try to access the folder, and on other computers a username/password prompt pops up. We want the username/password prompt. All of the computers use Windows XP. Is anyone aware of any settings in XP that would cause this?

 

[Roadki11]

A better way would be to create a security group, make that group the only thing that can access that folder, add the users you want to access that folder members of that group.

RoadKi11

 

[cygnustech]

Anybody have any ideas? We're still at a stand still with this.

 

[itsp1965]

Don't know if this helps you, but have you considered applying encryption on these files, so only a certain user can access them?

 

[cygnustech]

Could you explain this further, I am not familiar with this? Thanks!