Saturday, July 20, 2013

PERMISSIONS

What is Permissions:-
  • Permissions define the type of access granted to a user, group, or computer to access resources.
  • Permission can be applied to resources such as files, folders, and printers.
                 - Like: Privilege to read a file, delete a file, or to create a new file in folder.

Types of Permissions:-
  1. Security Level Permissions
  2. Share Level Permissions

1.Security Level Permissions:-
  • Can be implemented Only in NTFS partitions.
  • Security or NTFS Permissions can be set on drives, Folders, and Files.
  • By default, security permissions will be inherited from its parent drive or folder.
  • File permission override folder permissions.
  • Creators of the file and folders are their owners.
  • Different security Permissions are
                  - Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, Write, Read, List Folder Contents.

2.Share Level Permission:-
  • It can be implemented on NTFS and FAT partition.
  • It can be set on Drives and shared Folders but not files.
  • What are shared folders?
               - Share folders can be accessed from network.
               - When you copy or move shared folder, the folder will no longer be shared.
               - To hide a shared folder, include a $ after the name of the shared folder & users access                          hidden shared folder by typing the UNC path.
  • Different Share Permission are
               -Reader, contributor, Co-Owner

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