I am trying out NTFS permissions on my

WinXP Professional + SP2 standalone system.

I am logged in with Administrator account.

I've given Read, List folder contents and Read & Execute

permissions to the users group. Also a special permission

Create files / Write data & Create folders / Append data

has also been given by default. These are the only permissions

given to the users group to a folder on D:

Now when I login with a user account I can copy

paste any file from that folder.

Hows that possible? How can a user copy paste

a file when hes given read permission only?

However I cannot cut paste any file neither rename

it nor delete it which is what read permission is meant

for...

Plz help.

If someone is given read access, it doesn't stop them from copying the data. By copying the data they are not modifying in any way, by cutting from it they are. You can prevent them from deleting the file, changing its attributes/permissions and writing to it etc. but if you don't want them to copy from it, then you're going to have to use a third party method or prevent read access to it.

Thank you, sir. That solves my curiosity:)