Map Sharing and Security Permissions Windows 10
OK. I've spent enough time on this so I need help!
On a peer-to- peer network:
I thought I understood pretty well what "Everyone", "Administrators", "Guest", "Users", etc. etc. are defined.
And, I thought I understood pretty well what Windows Credentials would do.
But no......
Here are a couple of cases:
Case 1: IT guy goes to a client computer and wants to access his own workstation files over the network. Normally this would not be possible without having given access to Guest. He wants to stay logged in as the client User "Jane" while doing this. His workstation has a User Profile "John". So, he adds Windows Credentials to the client workstation for "John". This should work - but doesn't.
If "Administrators" have sharing and security privileges on his workstation and "Jane" is an Administrator on her computer and is logged in then does that give access to files on "john"'s shares? Or, does "Adminstrators" mean "only members of the Administrators group on THIS workstation"?
Case 2: Two workstations #1 and #2 with "fred" user profile and same password on both. I had thought that if "fred" is logged on to #1, it could access shares on #2 - independent of the logged in / logged off of #2.
"Joe" is a user profile on #1 only. "Joe" is logged in on #1 and tries to access shares on #2. He gets access on #2 using "fred" with no credentials. This is a surprise. I didn't think it would work.
So, without necessarily discussing the two examples, where can I find the definitions for the User Groups? I'm feeling the need for the definitions without being bogged down in other details. I'm hoping that at least that will help clear up *some* of the confusion I have.
My experiments haven't been very helpful. Is there a need to reboot while making changes?
On a peer-to- peer network:
I thought I understood pretty well what "Everyone", "Administrators", "Guest", "Users", etc. etc. are defined.
And, I thought I understood pretty well what Windows Credentials would do.
But no......
Here are a couple of cases:
Case 1: IT guy goes to a client computer and wants to access his own workstation files over the network. Normally this would not be possible without having given access to Guest. He wants to stay logged in as the client User "Jane" while doing this. His workstation has a User Profile "John". So, he adds Windows Credentials to the client workstation for "John". This should work - but doesn't.
If "Administrators" have sharing and security privileges on his workstation and "Jane" is an Administrator on her computer and is logged in then does that give access to files on "john"'s shares? Or, does "Adminstrators" mean "only members of the Administrators group on THIS workstation"?
Case 2: Two workstations #1 and #2 with "fred" user profile and same password on both. I had thought that if "fred" is logged on to #1, it could access shares on #2 - independent of the logged in / logged off of #2.
"Joe" is a user profile on #1 only. "Joe" is logged in on #1 and tries to access shares on #2. He gets access on #2 using "fred" with no credentials. This is a surprise. I didn't think it would work.
So, without necessarily discussing the two examples, where can I find the definitions for the User Groups? I'm feeling the need for the definitions without being bogged down in other details. I'm hoping that at least that will help clear up *some* of the confusion I have.
My experiments haven't been very helpful. Is there a need to reboot while making changes?
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Thanks all.
You are very welcome and I am always happy to help you whenever I can.
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I'm sure that my problems stem, in part, from observations given to me by others.
And, I'm also sure that they come from drives or folders which have not had all of their permissions propagated down for some reason - which, of course, I don't expect.
And, it's likely that one or the other machine had not been rebooted or logged out before making the observations.
This leads me to a related question:
A link or some rules of thumb for knowing what things require a reboot or a logout? I've just "sort of learned" but the result is pretty fuzzy.