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what are you trying to do with the NAS and VMware ?
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Inside of the VMs we have one window server 2012 and nas drive just has some files that we want to let our employees to access(read/write)<br />
just like sale dept folder can be accessed by sale only
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NAS Drive - could you expand, is this iSCSI, NFS or Windows Share ?
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I am not sure. &nbsp;but this is what we purchased below. All we do so far is to add files in the folder.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/EX4100-Diskless-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00TB8XMR0/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1490988041&sr=8-7&keywords=western+digital+nas" rel="ugc">https://www.amazon.com/EX4100-Diskless-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00TB8XMR0/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1490988041&sr=8-7&keywords=western+digital+nas</a>
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I have found a <a href="https://community.wd.com/t/active-directory-permissions-and-ex4100-private-shares/101369/8" rel="ugc">post </a>on WD forums which seems relevant ...if not we need more info about your setup.
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how has this been added to window server 2012, do users need to go through the Windows Server, or direct to the NAS ?<br />
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can you tell us how they access the NAS ?<br />
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e.g. what do they type ?
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Okay looking at the specifications, this is nothing to do with Windows 2012, and can be accessed standalone as a Windows File Server.<br />
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So you need to login to the NAS, and setup Read and Write permissions for users.<br />
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Depending upon where you share the parent, permissions should replicate through the folder structure.
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I did login the NAS<br />
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Assume I have Sales Folder &gt;&gt;&nbsp;Set Permission &gt;&gt;&nbsp;Everyone in Sale <br />
Assume I have sub folder inside of Sales called Manager and I want to grand permission to John Smith (he is the manager of sale group).<br />
Can I do that?
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Okay, you have got Share Permissions and you may have File Systems Security. (NTFS).<br />
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Usually you would Set permissions on a Share, e.g. you could add a group. So everyone in the Group Everyone in Sales, would have access to the file share, and be able to read and write all files and folders in that file share.<br />
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This would include the Sub Folder, so Group Everyone in Sales would also have access to that Folder.<br />
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The way then to prevent this, would be to Set Security Permissions on the Folder, so only John Smith could have access.<br />
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You can do this on a Windows Computer.<br />
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However, on a NAS it used the file system of the NAS device, so it very much depends on what file system is in use.
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Not sure I understand u correctly.<br />
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Can you share with me it is correct below<br />
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1 sale folder to everyone - go the server and do what?<br />
2 manager inside of folder - go the server and do what?<br />
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3. About the cloud portal - I can join the ad for sure but should I just not to use it at all for the permission tasks?<br />
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I just need very clear way to get start
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1. Set Share permissions to Group Sales<br />
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2. Set Folder (security) permissions - to user John only.<br />
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It will need to be AD joined to do this, and you also need to make sure NTFS permissions can be set.
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1. Set Share permissions to Group Sales - what is that mean?
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do you require any additional help to close this question and select a solution ?
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We have server running VMWare with window 2012 and recently purchased WD My Cloud EX4100.<br />
Now we want to grand permission to some of the folders as well as sub folders.<br />
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I was able to grand permission to parents folders but can't do in sub folders.<br />
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Can you guy tell me it is possible to grand permission to sub folders at all?
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We have server running VMWare with window 2012 and recently purchased WD My Cloud EX4100.
Now we want to grand permission to some of the folders as well as sub folders.

I was able to grand permission to parents folders but can't do in sub folders.

Can you guy tell me it is possible to grand permission to sub folders at all?

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