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Network Administration: Granting Share Permissions
When you first create a file share in Windows Server 2008, all users are granted read-only access to the share. If you want to allow users to modify files in the share or allow them to create new files, you need to add additional permissions. Here’s how to do this via the Share and Storage Management console:
Choose Start→Administrative Tools→Share and Storage Management.
The Share and Storage Management console appears.
Right-click the share you want to set permissions for, choose Properties, and then click the Permissions tab.
This dialog box lets you set the permissions for the share itself or set the NTFS permissions for the folder being shared.
Click Share Permissions.
This dialog box lists all the users and groups to whom you’ve granted permission for the folder. When you select a user or group from the list, the check boxes at the bottom of the list change to indicate which specific permissions you’ve assigned to each user or group.
Type the name of the user or group to whom you want to grant permission and then click OK.
You return to the Share Permissions tab, with the new user or group added.
If you’re not sure of the name, click Advanced. Then, you can click the Find Now button to display a list of all users and groups in the domain. Alternatively, you can enter the first part of the name that you’re looking for before you click Find Now to search more specifically. When you find the user or group that you’re looking for, click OK.
Select the appropriate Allow or Deny check boxes.
This specifies which permissions to allow for the user or group.
Repeat for any other permissions.
When you're done, Click OK.
If you want to grant full access to everyone for this folder, don’t bother adding another permission. Instead, select the Everyone group and then select the Allow check box for each permission type. You can remove a permission by selecting the permission and then clicking Remove.
If you’d rather not fuss with the Share and Storage Management console, you can set the permissions from My Computer. Right-click the shared folder and choose Sharing and Security and then click Permissions. You can then follow the preceding procedure, picking up at Step 4.
The permissions assigned in this procedure apply only to the share itself. The underlying folder can also have permissions assigned to it. If that’s the case, whichever of the restrictions is more restrictive always applies. For example, if the Share Permissions grant a user Full Control permission, but the folder permission grants the user only Read permission, the user has only Read permission for the folder.
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