Re: Proper way to do shares

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From: Bill Bradley (wdbradley3_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:03:59 -0700

Thanks. This is what I thought, but, wasn't sure, and the MS books are
kinda vague on this subject. By "section", I mean department or group (we
call them services or sections).
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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> Bill Bradley wrote:
>> I'm using a two-node Win2K3 cluster in active/active mode to provide
>> two virtual servers that give access to shared folders (home
>> directories and other shares). The shares are on drives created on a
>> SAN.
>>
>> We have about 1500 users, so I have that many home directories, and
>> each section has a "common" shared folder, and certain groups would
>> have shared folders, so we have about 500 of those.
>>
>> I assume I just share these 2000 folders individually, using user or
>> group rights to provide type of access?
>
> You don't need to share the home directories individually unless you have
> NT/Win9x clients (and not necessarily even then, if you use SUBST in your
> login script). Set up a parent home dir folder and grant administrators,
> system, users, full control. Share the parent home directory folder as
> home$
> so it's hidden, adjust the share permissions so everyone=full control, and
> then in each users ADUC properties, you can specify
> \\server\home$\%username% - the folder should be automatically created if
> it's set up right, and the permissions should be adjusted appropriately.
> I'm
> writing this from memory & don't have anything to test with right now, so
> corrections are welcome (esp. as concerns automatic adjustment of
> permissions)...
>
> You may want to set up the 'group' or shared folders as individual shares,
> but you don't have to. Depends on what you want users to see. With
> Windows,
> folders won't be hidden from view just because users don't have access to
> them - unlike in Netware.
>>
>> With Novell, we had our user and common shared folders within section
>> folders (made it easier to do changes to an entire section), so, if I
>> want to do something similar in Windows, would I create a share for
>> each section only, then use NTFS rights to allow access to folders
>> within the section folder, or share both section folder and
>> individual folders, or what?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "section". I haven't used Netware since
> 4x...
> or do you mean "department" or "group" ?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>

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