Specifying Directory Access Rights in User-Level Security

Access rights specify what a user can do in a directory protected by user-level security. The access rights you define for a directory apply to all of its subdirectories. You cannot, however, assign permissions to individual files in Windows 95. (Both Windows NT and NetWare allow you to assign permissions to files.)

For each directory, you can assign read-only, full, or custom access. (Read-only and full access are equivalent to the same values used by Windows for Workgroups with share-level security.) Custom access allows you to further specify exactly what each user or group can do in the directory, as specified in the following list.

File operation

Required permissions

Read from a closed file

Read files

See a filename

List files

Search a directory for files

List files

Write to a closed file

Write, create, delete, change file attributes

Run an executable file

Read, list files

Create and write to a file

Create files

Copy files from a directory

Read, list files

Copy files to a directory

Write, create, list files

Make a new directory

Create files

Delete a file

Delete files

Remove a directory

Delete files

Change directory or file attributes

Change file attributes

Rename a file or directory

Change file attributes

Change access rights

Change access control


To define custom access

  1. Open the Add Users dialog box in a shared resource's properties as described in the preceding procedure.
  2. In the Add Users dialog box, click a user or group, click Custom, and then click OK.
  3. In the Add Users dialog box, click a user or group from the Name list, and then click Custom.
  4. In the Change Access Rights dialog box, click the type of rights the user or group of users can have in the directory, and then click OK.
  5. To remove a user or group of users, click the user or group of users, and then click Remove.
  6. To edit the access rights for a user or group of users, click the user or group of users, and then click Edit.