Exercise 1.2: Windows NT Access Permissions

Exercise 1.2: Windows NT Access Permissions

Objective: Explore Windows NT access permissions.

Estimated time: 10 minutes

1.	Log on to a Windows NT system as an Administrator.
2.	Right-click the Start button and choose Explore to start Explorer. (This exercise assumes you are using a Windows NT 4.0 system. If you are using Windows NT 3.x, start File Manager. The remaining steps are similar.)
3.	Right-click on a directory in Explorer. The Directory Properties dialog box appears. Click on the Sharing tab.
4.	In the Directory Properties Sharing tab, click on the Share As button and then click the Permissions button.
5.	The Access Through Share Permissions dialog box appears. Through this dialog box, you can define which users or groups can access the share. Click Add to add users and groups to the permissions list.
6.	If the directory is on an NTFS partition, you also see a Security tab in the Directory Properties dialog box. Click on the Security tab. From the Security tab, click on the Permissions button. The subsequent Directory Permissions dialog box enables you to set permissions for the directory itself (as opposed to the share).

A hard drive partition must be formatted for a specific file system. Windows NT uses the FAT and NTFS file systems. NTFS is a disk file system designed to make use of Windows NT’s finest features, including file-level access permissions.