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10 things you should know about working with permissions
Overview
Managing permissions can be challenging, especially when everything looks like it should work--but it doesn't. These tips and best practices will help you troubleshoot and avoid some typical problems.
NTFS and share-level permissions both have an effect on the user's ability to access resources on a network, and you need a good understanding of both to untangle and resolve certain access issues. IT pro Rick Vanover has put together this list of pointers and best practices to help you effectively manage permissions on your system. The list includes recommendations such as:
- Know when to copy and when to move: Standard copy and move operations deliver default results that can maintain your configured permissions--or break them. Remember that copy operations will create the permissions of the destination container, and move operations will maintain that of the parent container.
- Understand inherited permissions: Inheritance is fairly easy to grasp when all defaults are used. But when inheritance is blocked, it becomes more difficult to sort out problems. In troubleshooting inherited permissions, it is best to start at the root of the problem and work your way up the folder structure.
- Rule out special permissions in troubleshooting: Every administrator has at some point not been sure of the application of various permissions--share permissions, NTFS permissions, group memberships, multiple user accounts, etc. Taking a quick look at the special permissions can quickly provide a hint as to whether they're part of the issue you're troubleshooting.
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| Publisher | TechRepublic | File Format | |
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| Date Published | September 2005 | Downloads | 3 |
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