User and Software permition

I have an application that works in a network environment.
I want to allow the application (on the other computers, throw the network,
and on the server) to have full access to the directory on the server (all
computers running windows XP Pro), but i want to restrict/not allow any user
on the network to have access to the directory/files where my application is
installed (on the server and local computer). Is this possible? how?


my thanks in advanced

Ricardo Furtado <RicardoFurtado@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have an application that works in a network environment.
> I want to allow the application (on the other computers, throw the
> network, and on the server) to have full access to the directory on
> the server (all computers running windows XP Pro), but i want to
> restrict/not allow any user on the network to have access to the
> directory/files where my application is installed (on the server and
> local computer). Is this possible? how?
>
>
> my thanks in advanced

You can't assign permissions to an *application*. If your users need to
access the folder where the application resides in order to run the app,
then the users need access to those folders on the server. However,
depending on the application's requirements, you may be able to limit how
much access they have (and hence the damage they could do). It's really
impossible to tell you how to do that, however - it all depends on your app.