RE: Share Permissions

["Chris Berry" <compjma () hotmail com>]

> From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benjamin Meade [mailto:ben () lanwest com au]
> >
> > Just wondering in Win2K server, when I share a folder, I set the share
> > permissions to full access for everybody, and then control access using
> > the file permissions. (Basically cos it cuts down on administration, and
> > I'm lazy.) Are there any security issues running this way, or is it much
> > of a muchness?
>
>   First of all, I presume that by "file" permissions, you mean "NTFS
> permissions" -- which, of course, presumes that you're *using* NTFS.
>
>   If all that's true, then you're probably okay.  The remaining risk is
> that you may make shares visible and even mountable (even if all other
> access is denied) to people whom you might prefer not even know they
> exist.

I highly recommend at least changing it from the everyone group to domain 
users.

Chris Berry
compjma () hotmail com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe and 
a quick recompile."

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