preventing movement of shared network folders

[proudusa]

Hi all,

I want to prevent users from accidentally moving directories around. It has happened on a few occasions and i want to stop it.

I have the following rights set up for shared folders:

Inheritable permissions not checked
List folder
Read and Execute
Read
Write

I have gone into the advanced tab and under the domain users' permissions i have unchecked 1)delete subfolders and files AND 2)delete.

Now when you try moving a folder it does give them an access denied. However, it appears to place a replica of the folder and subfolders but NOT the content. Is there a way to prevent the folders in general from being moved.

Thanks.

 

[runnin26]

From your description, it sounds like the access denied message they get is because they are trying to do a move. In the first part of the move, the data can be placed in the destination directory with no problem, but in the second part of the move it cannot be deleted from the source directory because you have removed that permission.

In the second part of the problem, the replica of the folder and folder structure will appear in the destination directory because of two reasons: 1. with the List Folder and/or Traverse Folder permissions, the user can read the source and therefore copy it. 2. the user has permissions to create folders and/or files in the desitination directory. So, basically, if a user can see stuff on a network share, you can prevent them from deleting it, but (as far as I know) you can't prevent them from copying it to somewhere that they have sufficient permissions unless you prevent them from seeing it in the first place.

Hopefully I typed this out in a way that makes sense.