Need help understanding file rights

I'm having some trouble understanding how Windows server does file rights. I
created a share and then created department and user home directories under
it. I created users and they had full rights to their home directory,
however, they were read-only. Then I read that I needed to grant full control
to everyone to the share itself. However, this opened up the directories so
that everyone could write to wherever they wanted. My understanding is that I
now need to adjust NTFS rights to provide full access to user's home
directories and nowhere else (Who came up with this system? Novell does it so
much better). Unfortunately, I don't have a clue how to do that correctly. I
look at the security tab for the folders, and I see a number of different
system groups listed there with various rights. I don't know what to add or
remove to the various directories. What I want is to allow users full access
to their home directories only and still be able to backup the server.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a guide anywhere that can help me
with this task. If anybody could assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.
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