Difference between share permissions and ntfs permissions

rogerj · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I am having a problem with permissions. What is the diff between share and ntfs?
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SZwarts · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:18 am Post subject:

While you're compare two completely different things. ntfs is a filesysytem. A share is way of giving information to other people.

So if you choose for example samba for sharing on a ntfs partition, you have (at least) two levels of permissions.

When you're trying to access such a share, first samba is going to look if according to his information the client is allowed to access the data. If that check succeeds it tries to read/write/access the data. By doing that it does some operations on the filesystem, so the ntfs module looks if samba is allowed to access that data. If both things are succesful the data is delivered.
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nobspangle · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:30 am Post subject:

With windows boxes the ntfs permissions are plenty. The best method is to set the share permissions to everyone full access, and then set ntfs permissions on the files and folders.