SHARE VS NTFS PERMISSIONS HOW TO

First you may need to decide if you want to create an SMB or NFS shared folderВ (if the NFS service is installed) Next youвЂ™ll need to choose a so called вЂShare ProfileвЂ™ For example, when creating an SMB share you have the options: Quick, Advanced or Application. However, Windows Server 2012 might be the exception hereвЂ¦ Mainly because of theВ new and improved SMB 3.0 protocol additional steps and featuresВ have been addedВ to the shared folder creation process.

I assume we all know how to share a folder right? Although the creation process is slightly different depending on the OS used, most of the differences come from the graphical user interface and not from new technology per see. More often then you think people get confused with the mix and match process when applying these permissions, letвЂ™s clear up a few misconceptions shall we?!

Having said thatвЂ¦ДЄlthough the basic shared folder functionality changed slightly over the past few years (especiallyВ with the introduction of Server 2012 not to long ago) the whole share vs NTFS permissions вЂdebacleвЂ™В hasnвЂ™t gone awayВ and still raises some questions every now and again. Although IвЂ™m not the first to touch the subject and IвЂ™ve also seen and read multiple blogs discussing the matter, I think we can still find new ways around this predicament. IвЂ™ve seen multiple medior and even senior admins struggle with this, and unfortunately itвЂ™s not as вЂbasicвЂ™ as everybody thinks. Not a new topic by any means, but still definitely one worth mentioning.

ItвЂ™s easy to get lost in the share vs NTFS permissions maze, especially when the two get combined creating shared folders, the main focus of this article. Another article I wrote as a guest blogger for Intense School, partly based on one of my previous Blogs posted a few months ago, I altered it slightly.

SHARE VS NTFS PERMISSIONS HOW TO

Share vs ntfs permissions