A Failure of Comprehension

There are three things that almost everyone that I meet in IT seems incapable of understanding; Share Permissions vs NTFS Permissions, NTFS Full Control vs Modify permissions and Group Policy vs Local Permissions. For those who don’t know, Windows folders presented over a network via CIFS share have two levels of permissions: Share Permissions, which are mostly a lingering reminder of the pre-NTFS days, when they were only way to control access to network resources and are pretty basic with only Read, Change & Full Control available to you....

2010-11-23 · 3 min · Adam