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Guest Permissions Again

Source: microsoft.public.virtualserver
Sent: 02/02/2006
From: "Jim Watts" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Hi,

I think i've asked this before, and i'm fairly sure i got it all to work
before but i'm lost again now!

I need to set permissions on our VS R2 systems to allow colleagues to
have/use Virtual Machines but not be able to affect machines that they don't
"own". Basically waht i want is:

All VMs show in the Admin Web site and/or the VMRC server display
Users can start, stop and reconfigure their own virtual machines
Users can use the VMRC to interact with their own virtual machines
Users CANNOT start, stop or reconfigure virtual machines that they do not
own
Users CANNOT use VMRC to interact with virtual machines that they do not own
(although i dont mind if they can view the screen)

I've played with the security permissions interface in the admin web site,
and also with NTFS permissions but i can't get what i want to work. If i
give everybody VIEW + CONTROL access, then they can STOP other peoples
running virtual machines, i guess because this operation does need to write
to the VMRC file. If i take away the CONROL permission, or block inheritance
on the folder that holds the .vmc file, then they can nolonger see the
existence of the virtual machine in the web site and/or VMRC. I know that
this is a solution, but really we want everybody to see what other VMs are
running, so they know the load the host is under. I think the basic issue is
that some operations (shutdown, turn off, suspend etc) DON'T require write
access to the guest machines folder/files.

Any ideas, or examples of the NTFS permissions people have set on the guest
drive root, the guest folder and/or the All Users\Applciation
Data\Microsoft\Virtual Server folder?

Many thanks
--
Jim Watts
Information Systems Services
University of Southampton

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