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 was referring to the individual criteria that you need to meet. Those criteria are user authority or power. If you are an admin user, you can change almost anything in Windows. It includes the ...

A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Several readers have noted an issue where permissions for files and folders created through AFP (Apple filesharing protocol) under Mac OS X 10.4.x. are not correct. Under Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther), ...