One of our older, more microsoft hating members of staff was having a discussion with the microft members of staff, saying how much permissions in the windows world aren't as advanced as unix file ...

the umask, or fmask and dmask options. Windows users have full access to the files created by ntfs-3g.</pre><BR><BR><BR>Basically what that means that unless you specify special options during ...

Basically, someone needed to audit the NTFS permissions on a set of files and directories (I will refer to them as objects). Easy, right? Oh, I forgot to mention that “Administrators” had no rights to ...

According to Jason Wingate, the CEO of marketing firm Emerald Ocean Ltd. and a veteran of enterprise IT implementations, managing file system ACLs and permissions properly isn’t just about keeping ...

If you copy shared folders through a normal Windows interface, it will not retain the share permissions of the folder or the files contained within the folder. First change inherited permissions to ...

Shares are named entry points in the Windows network directory that allow access to file systems and resources on other servers over the network, as if it were one large server. To allow a group of ...