Basic Sharing Creating and managing a shared folder is a little bit more of a manual process
Basic Sharing Creating and managing a shared folder is a little bit more of a manual process
than the public sharing model, but it enables you to share any folder on the Windows 7 computer, and it gives you more fine-tuned control over sharing the folders.
Basic file sharing enables you to use a standard set of permissions to allow or deny initial access to files and folders over the network. Basic file-sharing set- tings are enabled or disabled on a per-computer basis. To enable File Sharing, you have to do the following:
1. Open the Network and Sharing Center.
2. Click the Change advanced sharing settings.
3. To enable file sharing, select Turn on file and printer sharing. To dis- able file sharing, select Turn off file and printer sharing.
4. Click Save changes. There are two ways to share a folder. The first (and quickest) way is to right-
click the folder you want to share and click Share with, as shown in Figure
10.4. You can also click the Share with button at the top of the Windows Explorer window. Then, select who you want to share the folder with. Your choices are Nobody, Homegroup (Read), Homegroup (Read/Write), and Specific people. If you select Specific people, you can give Read access or Read/Write access, as shown in Figure 10.5.
FIGURE 10.4 Share with options.
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FIGURE 10.5 Specifying people to access a share and their permissions levels.
You can also right-click a folder and select Properties to display the window shown in Figure 10.6. If you click the Share button, you can share a folder similar to selecting specific people using a wizard.
FIGURE 10.6 Folder Properties Sharing tab.
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Advanced Sharing If you click Advanced Sharing, you can specify the name of the shared folder.
A shared folder can be shared several times with different share names and permissions. To configure the permissions for the Shared folder, click the Permissions button (see Figure 10.7).
FIGURE 10.7 Advanced Sharing.
When a user accesses a file or folder in a Share over the network, the two lev- els of permissions are user: share permissions and NTFS permissions (if it is on an NTFS volume). The three share permissions are as follows:
. Full Control: Users allowed this permission have Read and Change permissions, as well as the additional capabilities to change file and fold- er permissions and take ownership of files and folders. If you have Owner/Co-owner permissions on a shared resource, you have full access to the shared resource.
. Change: Users allowed this permission have Read permissions and the additional capability to create files and subfolders, modify files, change attributes on files and subfolders, and delete files and subfolders. If you have Change permissions on a shared resource, the most you can do is perform read operations and change operations.
. Read: Users with this permission can view file and subfolder names, access the subfolders of the share, read file data and attributes, and run program files. If you have Read permissions on a shared resource, the most you can do is perform read operations.
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