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July 8, 2003 at 02:53 AM
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Confused about “shared” drives

by wwvlists-servers . Updated 23 years, 3 months ago

Hi All:

I’m a one-man shop (I do hospital database work) w/ a small Win 2K Server lan (and 4 Win 2K Pro clients). Since it’s just me, I share most of the drives on all clients (and server).

My question is this:

What exactly is the difference between “Share Permissions” and “Security”?

Presently I have “Share Permissions” set to allow Full Control, Change, and Read for my “local machine\Administrators”, and to allow only Reads to “Everyone”.

Under “Security” I allow “Everyone” everything (i.e., Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, and Write).

At one point, IIRC, I had to do it this way to get all machines to work OK with respect to copying/moving and reading misc. files.

So … can/will anyone give me a concise explanation of these two constructs *and* feel free to advise on any better configuration (as I’m sure there are som more optimal ones).

Thanks in advance,

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