I am not looking for shared folders but rather a way with NTFS permissions that allows single users to have FULL access to certain subfolders on a drive and not be able to list, read, or see any of the top folders.
e.g. Mike deals with Sales department and only with archives of 2012.
Q:\Sales\2012
Q:\Sales\2013
Q:\Finances\2012
Q:\Finances\2013
Q:\Secret_Folder\
So, I want Mike to be able to work within Q:\Sales\2012\ but when he tries to go to top folder like \Sales\ or Q:\ I want him to get stopped due to no permissions. But I want him to be able to Delete, and Modify contents of files/subfolders within Q:\Sales\2012.
Please detail me as to what the permissions should be on Q:\ drive itself and then the subsequent folders for this to work. I definitely don't want Mike to know there is a Secret_Folder.
OS: Windows 2008 R2
***I can provide users with direct shortcut to their folders
Much appreciated.