Limiting access to drives/folders

This may be simple, but I'm not trained in networking. Just thrown into the job by default.

Our church has a machine running Windows 2003 server and 10 clients running Windows XP. We have a shared M: drive. Everyone who has log-in privileges can see and edit files.

My question is, can I set up drives or folders that have some sort of group access so that only those who belong can see and/or edit contents? There are groups that need to share files with each other, but not necessarily with everyone else.

If the solution is too long to explain here, please point me to where I can find it.

re: Limiting access to drives/folders

Very easy to do :)

create some local resource groups on the server , assign users to them and then add the groups to the security tab and assign them the appropriate permissions.

sorry my server is broken at present otherwise I would post a more lengthy description but if you need more help just PM me

re: Limiting access to drives/folders

definitely YEs,
As you mentioned earlier you are using win2k3 server, so you have all the permissions in the folder or the drive itself,


if you want editing drive M,

then just right click on the folder insde it, then go to security and permission

add the names that are gonna have the permission onto it, then just dont add those who should not be in that folder,

if you want you can minimize the ability of a certain user or groups into the folder, by clicking advance, in here you can setup permissions whether they're allowed to read, write, overwrite, alter or delete files from a certain folder,

note that we always/ win2k3 always follow a security first setting, what does it mean is that, when a certain user is allowed to write but denied to view, it follows that he can no longer view nor write files onto a folder,