Re: Granting Read Permission to Desktop Application

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I can tell you one way to do this, but first I'll tell you why it won't work. If the users can open the file in the app you describe, they can also open it in Excel, and they can copy the data or "save as" from there. The other thing is they can use any number of screen capture tools can get at the data anyway, as can pen and paper, so I'm not sure how realistic this idea is in any case.

How you'd do it is to create a share where the users have Read access. Within that share, create a folder where the users have no access (in the NTFS permissions - don't share this subfolder). Then put the file in that folder and set the NTFS permissions for the users to Read. Now the user can access \\servername\share, cannot access \\servername\share\subfolder, but can access \\servername\share\subfolder\file.exs. But the problem is, as I said, once they open the file in Excel they can do as they wish with it.



"Tom Bombadil" <Genius_Poster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B7D55259-36E2-434A-B932-6424153B8B48@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

At the place where I work we run an SBS2003, and I'm the one in charge of it. We have about 20 users. My boss wants me to make an Excel file available to users so that it can be opened through this really small application that basically just displays the contents of the file and allows you to search through it. The catch is, he is very adamant that he does not want the users to be able to copy the file.

Now, since I know that as soon as a user can read a file, he can also copy it, I was wondering if it is at all possible to grant the read permission to the application, and bypass the user altogether. The application has no Save menu available.

Thanks for your thoughts

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