# Creating Restricted User Folders within the Partek Flow server Partek Flow provides the infrastructure to isolate data from different users within the same server. This guide will provide general instructions on how to create this environment within Partek Flow. This can be modified to accommodate existing file systems already accessible to the server. Go to **Settings > Directory** permissions and restrict parent folder access (typically */home/flow*) to *Administrator* accounts only

Figure 1. Setting directory permission for administrators

Click the Permit access to a new directory button and navigate to the folder with your library files (typically /home/flow/FlowData/library\_files). Select the All users (automatically updated) checkbox to permit all users (including those that will be added in the future) to see the library files associated with the Partek Flow server

Figure 2. Allow all users permission to see the library files

Then go to System preferences > Filesystem and storage and set the Default project output directory to "Sample file directory"

Figure 3. Set default project output directory

Create your first user and select the Private directory checkbox. Specify where the private directory for that user is located

Figure 4. Adding a user with a private directory

If needed, you can create a user directory by clicking Browse > Create new folder

Figure 5. Create a new private user folder

This automatically sets browsing permissions for that private directory to that user

Figure 6. Private directories automatically get restricted permissions

When a user creates a project. The default project output directory is now within their own restricted folder

Figure 7. Project output directory will now be within private directory

More importantly, other users cannot see them

Figure 8. Other users' directories are not visible

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