Hello.
I am trying to find a fix for a weird document library permissions and “visibility” issue in SharePoint 2013.
In two examples so far, the client has sites with the usual Owners, Contributing members and Visitors groups. All intended users are members of the appropriate groups. Permissions on document libraries have been separated from the parent, configured so that only specific users can view or modify. Running the “Check permissions” tool on user xyz library produces and confirms “Access for user abc: None”.
Oddly, if users click on “all site content”, they are able to see all document libraries listed. They can see names, tiles for other libraries, total number of items and modified date indicated beside each library tile. This is not good. The client does not want users to see a list of other users’ libraries.
If a user clicks on a document library for another user, the library page displays but items are not visible. That’s a small consolation but still not acceptable.
How do we make it so users do not see other users’ libraries listed in all site content?
Thanks in advance,
Theresa
Good news :), Looks like this issue no longer exists after applying SP1.
Is this by chance a multiple server farm where both server are running the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application service?
I had a similar issue in SPOnline 2013 with Office 365. I gave 3 users permission to a doc library, but everyone else was still able to see, edit, add etc. to the library. I noticed on the Library tab and “Shared With” setting, there was an extra user and a “Company Administrator” user. So now the “Shared With” number was 5, isntead of 3. The two extra users are set as site collection administrators.
I inherited this SP setup since I wasn’t here when it was first implemented, but the “Company Adminstrator” role was giving access to everyone in the org. Since removing that generic user, security is what it should be.
If you have permission to only one Folder in document Library . it will throw errors if you want to go anywhere on that site. if this feature is deactivated you can have the behaviour as J.Schmit is experiencing.
Are your users and SharePoint Owners, Contributing members and Visitors groups members of specific AD groups and roles too?  We had this problem early on and partially the cause was because our AD groups weren’t completely setup.  Also we are using IRM and found that our test accounts have to have an AD email account or the security doesn’t work.  We have twice had issues with profile sync not working and that also caused users to see/not see things as designed.
