Re: Need help understanding file rights

Share the 'top' directory to all users then select sharing on the folder and
remove the tick in the 'In herit rights. . . .' box (lower left corner) then
Add the user for that directory and its also a good idea to Add a backup
user incase things get confused. Tick the box(es) for the user rights you
want to grant ( the top one gives all rights) then Apply and save. You are
right in that Novell is much much better on this score, but win2k3 is
getting there with full rights as a matter of fact for the administrator to
all folders.

If I have this right then-
HTH

"Patrick Hunter" <PatrickHunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EF15F15B-D144-4DB0-A041-5270CA11C80D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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