ntfs

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catherine said:
What is the difference between network and ntfs
permission?
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Assuming by network you mean share permissions, the NTFS access rights
control what I'm allowed to do when sitting at the computer, and the share
rights control what I'm allowed to do while accessing the computer from the
network.

Thats the easy bit. The slightly more difficult bit comes when you consider
how the two interact:

When you access a computer from the network you don't get any greater rights
than you do from accessing it locally, the share rights that control network
access simply act as a "mask" to decide which of my "local" NTFS rights also
applies on the network... It doesn't give me extra rights (e.g. if I have
read NTFS rights and use a "full control" share, I still only have read
rights to the files), it simply decides which rights work across the
network.

For example, lets say I have a folder and I have the NTFS "full control"
rights for it. While sitting at the keyboard using the computer locally I
can do everything i want with that folder due to the NTFS full control
rights.

Now lets say I setup a share for that folder and I set "read only" share
permissions to it. Now, when I access the folder from the network via the
share, the share permissions "mask off" all my NTFS permissions except the
read one, and all I can do with the folder is read it.

Hope that makes sense.
 
where are ntfs rights/permisions setup?

in the security tab next to sharing?..

I'm having a problem with accessing a shared folder over a
network, the icon for the drive is there, just can't
access it... I am able to map the drive though.

chaz
 
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