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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Creating new files and folders gives them a default permissions set that can allow access to them from other account, which may be concerning at first glance. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT admins can save time and energy when changing Mac permissions by doing it via the command line or remotely via SSH. Learn how it’s done and what the notation means for command-line permissions.

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 ...