Auditing A Folder

External Since: Jul 24, 2007 Posts: 1

Is there a way to tell who or what accessed a particular folder or
file on my computer? The Security Event Log doesn't seem to contain
this information.

Thanks.

External Since: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 3

If you enable auditing on certain files and folders, this information
should be shown in the Security event log, but you must enable auditing
on objects first on the actual machine.

Either by Group Policy or Local Computer Policy, go to 'Computer
Configuration', 'Windows Settings', 'Security Settings', 'Local
Policies', 'Audit Policy', and modify the 'object access' setting.

More information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301640.
Hope this helps.

Richard Giagnacovo

Darrell.Wright.RemoveThis@okc.gov wrote:
> Is there a way to tell who or what accessed a particular folder or
> file on my computer? The Security Event Log doesn't seem to contain
> this information.
>
> Thanks.
>