I'm relatively new to Windows server management. I'm trying to setup folder redirection with GPO. The file server that's getting redirected is in a LXD fedora container. To me this indicates a problem ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

A few weeks ago, I answered a reader question about “inherited permissions,” or how to deal with a shared folder that multiple people use via file serving on a regular Mac, not one running macOS ...

Before you can change an ACL, you must get the current one. There are two ways to do this with PowerShell. Learn how to get the current ACL and modify it.

Windows Privacy Settings offer File System settings, which makes sure that unless allowed, Apps will not be able to access the File System, and user folders such as ...

The application data, or appdata, folders in Windows are used to store the settings files necessary for many programs to remember their settings and data and be able to run properly. Every user has ...

What's mine is essentially yours with simple file sharing enabled on a network-attached computer. Simple file sharing opens access to public folders and enables both locally and remotely networked ...

I'm playing around with NTFS permissions here. I'm looking to restrict permissions so that users only see what they have access to.<BR><BR>For example, should an external financial auditor come in, I ...

There are times when you may copy files or folders to your system and cannot access them because the system does not allow you permission to them. In the case of folders, you may see a small "no entry ...