RE: Sharing Folder and Files

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:57:51 -0700

Hi Ashok,

I have enabled the local security auditing and auditing on
my folders. How am I going to audit/view the reports of my
files and folders?

TQ
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Suzie,
>
>First, you need to enable Local Security Auditing and
then auditing on your
>folders.
>The audited entries can be viewed under Event Viewer -->
Security. The
>category will be object access.
>
>Administrators of local computers can use the following
method to set up
>local auditing of security access rights on individual
Windows 2000-based
>computers.
>
>--> Enabling Local Security Auditing
>
>1. Log on to Windows 2000 with an account that has
Administrator rights.
>2. Click Start, point to settings, and then click Control
Panel.
>3. Double-click Administrative Tools.
>4. Double-click Local Security Policy to start the Local
Security Settings
>snap-in in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
>5. Double-click Local Policies to expand it, and then
double-click Audit
>Policy.
>6. In the right pane, double-click the policy you want to
enable or disable.
>7. Click the Success and/or Fail check box(es) as
appropriate.
>
>NOTE: If you are participating in a domain, and a domain-
level policy is
>defined, domain-level settings override the local policy
settings.
>
>--> Enable auditing on your folders.
>
>To audit files and folders, you must be logged on as a
member of the
>Administrators group. You can set file and folder
auditing only on drives
>that are formatted to use NTFS. Because the security log
is limited in
>size, carefully select the files and folders to be
audited. Also consider
>the amount of disk space you are willing to devote to the
security log. The
>maximum size is defined in Event Viewer.
>
>1. Locate the file or folder you want to audit.
>2. Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and
then click the
>Security tab.
>3. Click Advanced, and then click the Auditing tab.
>4. To set up auditing for a new group or user, click Add.
Type the name of
>the user you in the Name box, and then click OK.
>5. Under Access, click Successful, Failed, or both for
each access you want
>to audit.
>6. If you want to prevent files and subfolders within the
tree from
>inheriting these audit entries, click to select the Apply
these auditing
>
> entries check box.
>
>NOTE: If the check boxes under Access are unavailable in
the Auditing Entry
>dialog box, or if the Remove button is unavailable in the
Access Control
>Settings dialog box, auditing has been inherited from the
parent folder.
>
>You can visit the following articles for more information:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;248260
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;310399
>
>HTH
>
>Ashok
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
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