Implementing Security on Windows NT

Implementing Security on Windows NT

After you assign an account to a user in a group, you can begin to give that user access to file-system resources through the Windows Explorer. Keep in mind that resources can be shared only through the machines on which they reside. To set up a shared resource, you simply create or locate a resource that you would like to share and place it into a directory on a local hard drive. For example, if you want to create a share on machine Test leading to files on machine Other, you first must copy those files to a directory on Test and then share that local directory. Setting permissions is a time-consuming process but is not difficult. Nonetheless, as Exercise 8.3 shows, the task of assigning permissions does have a number of options and can become confusing if not undertaken with care.

Further Information

Creating and Assigning Permissions to a Shared Folder on Windows NT
Assigning File-Level Permissions on an NTFS Partition