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Tiger1970

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#71024 3-Nov-2010 17:46
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Hi there i would like to know if i can have a person able to access a folder which contains music but not able to copy it to a flash drive or something similar

Just so they can listen to the music but they cant copy anything 

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Ragnor
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  #399875 3-Nov-2010 22:33
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Not really with shared folders.

Instead of sharing the files you could stream the audio over the LAN using a streaming server.

Lots of media players have those sort of features VLC, Winamp (Shoutcast) etc.



Tiger1970

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  #400242 4-Nov-2010 15:51
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What if i put the files on each users account instead of sharing them

Wil i be able to change the permissions so that they cant copy them 

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  #400245 4-Nov-2010 15:58
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Pretty sure if you can read it you can copy it, there's no particular "copy" privilege.

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