Boot Camp access to mac partition

Hi.
I have Windows 7 Pro on Boot Camp, which is also on a server 2003 domain. When the windows network users log in, they can access the Mac Partition. How do I prevent this from happening?
I know it is read only, but I prefer to have them access only the Windows partition when logged into Windows, and only have them access the Mac partition, when they are logged into Snow Leopard.
Thank you!

Rename AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys
By doing the following you will disable HFS mount / read mode on windows XP, Vista, 7.
Navigate to c:/windows/system32/drivers/AppleMNT.sys, rename the AppleMNT.sys file to something like AppleMNT_keep.sys or something of your likings.
The faulty HFS driver is a valid concern. It seems to happen on many systems.
You find it in Windows/system32/drivers/AppleHFS.sys
Renaming to AppleHFS_disabled.sys will avoid the blue screens until you have found another solution or Apple updates Bootcamp 3
After renaming both myself because they are no longer "*.sys" or something? they are gone. In my case AppleHFS prevented Windows Backup from running to end and was causing error "some files skipped" and while some might find reading convenient, I prefer Windows not have even read-only access.
You can probably do better with MacDrive8.
http://www.mediafour.com/support/downloads.asp

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That's because the Boot Camp volume was created, but your Mac hasn't been set up to start automatically from the Windows disc. Insert the Windows DVD and press C key while your Mac is starting to start Windows installation.
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Hi,
I have just done a clean install of my mac. Before installation i used disk utility to create a few partitions, one of them made available for Boot Camp.
Now when i start the Boot Camp Assistant it tells me:
"The startup disk can not be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single mac os extended (journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing windows"
What the h.... do i really have to start over AGAIN?!
I need 3 mac partitions and 1 windows, if i re-install, then use boot camp assistant to create a windows partition i'll be left with just 2 partitions.....
Any help is very welcome at this point.
Jay

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And I believe another forum has discussed this topic.
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
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Hi,
@Christopher Murphy:
Okay, you seem confident. Let's give this a shot. I use the command-line myself for the odd thing, so I'll try not to bail.
Results of the "sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0" command:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
 start size index contents
 0 1 PMBR
 1 1 Pri GPT header
 2 32 Pri GPT table
 34 6
 40 409600 1 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
 409640 156303528 2 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
156713168 1269536 3 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
157982704 659841040 4 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
817823744 262144
818085888 158687232 5 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
976773120 15
976773135 32 Sec GPT table
976773167 1 Sec GPT header
Results of the "sudo fdisk /dev/disk0" command:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
 Starting EndingSignature: 0xAA55
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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