My organisation uses WS2012 and want to share some files over the network. My question is how to copy protect a folder/file which is being shared?
The scenario is that, I want the users to access the folders but not to copy, delete or paste anything from or on it.
Please suggest how to achieve that, any help is appreciated.
P.S : I do not prefer using any third-party tool on a server, although heard of doing it through regedit but I do no know much about the registry keys, so a little guidance is needed.
Thanks!!!
Best Answer
If you want to share something with your users, by definition you are making it available to them to read/view and copy.
Preventing delete and editing files is easy, just use Read permissions exclusively on the share or the files.
But the user will be able to copy the content of the shared files. If you want to prevent that, you have to lock down the user's workstation to prevent that the data is leaving that PC. Disallow an USB devices and removable disks, and prevent any other network access especially to the public internet.