Save but should not delete

Hi!

One of my xp prof domain users has a shared folder on his pc which other
users need to access and work on the files in it. I need other users to work
on the files in this folder and save them but should not delete any folder or
file. I have checked every permission but if i don't give modify permission
to every user who needs to access this folder then nobody can save the file
with the original name after working on it and gets "Access Denied Contact
Administrator Message". This doesn't make any sense that users must have
modify permission to save a fil which also allows them to delete the files.

The files are Office 2003, 2007 Excel and Word files.

Is there a way to avoid deleting?

Thanks!

 

"create_share" <createshare@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5E1A9CD1-3BE1-4E69-9D55-2B7552D78BB8@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
>
> One of my xp prof domain users has a shared folder on his pc which other
> users need to access and work on the files in it. I need other users to
> work
> on the files in this folder and save them but should not delete any folder
> or
> file. I have checked every permission but if i don't give modify
> permission
> to every user who needs to access this folder then nobody can save the
> file
> with the original name after working on it and gets "Access Denied Contact
> Administrator Message". This doesn't make any sense that users must have
> modify permission to save a fil which also allows them to delete the
> files.
>
> The files are Office 2003, 2007 Excel and Word files.
>
> Is there a way to avoid deleting?
>
> Thanks!

If a user is allowed to modify a file then he can, in effect, delete it by
completely removing its contents, thus getting around the restriction you're
trying to implement.

 

On Wed, 27 May 2009 18:29:31 +0200, "Pegasus [MVP]" <news@microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>"create_share" <createshare@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:5E1A9CD1-3BE1-4E69-9D55-2B7552D78BB8@microsoft.com...
>> Hi!
>>
>> One of my xp prof domain users has a shared folder on his pc which other
>> users need to access and work on the files in it. I need other users to
>> work
>> on the files in this folder and save them but should not delete any folder
>> or
>> file. I have checked every permission but if i don't give modify
>> permission
>> to every user who needs to access this folder then nobody can save the
>> file
>> with the original name after working on it and gets "Access Denied Contact
>> Administrator Message". This doesn't make any sense that users must have
>> modify permission to save a fil which also allows them to delete the
>> files.
>>
>> The files are Office 2003, 2007 Excel and Word files.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid deleting?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>If a user is allowed to modify a file then he can, in effect, delete it by
>completely removing its contents, thus getting around the restriction you're
>trying to implement.
>

If a user has Modify Permission (= Write + Delete) he can delete it. You are
describing how a user can delete the content using Write (i.e. no delete
permission)

With Office the applications update their files by: Reading it to memory; Users
makes changes; user click save; words writes new temp file; if successful word
deletes original and renames temp. Without Delete permission this fails. Notepad
works differently so does not need delete.

If word worked like notepad then during the save you run out of disk space (or
network fails etc.) you will loose the original as it would be partly
overwritten. So the current method is the only sensible one.

--
Dave Mills
There are 10 types of people, those that understand binary and those that don't.