Windows File Sharing Permissions

[ddswh1pk0s]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been using windows file sharing for several months now, and recently tried to make some permissions about what devices on my LAN can access certain files.

 

My friend at school has no problem creating permissions since all the school laptops are on the same domain, but at home, since there is no domain, I can't make any permissions, my only options are my account name, "everyone" or "create user".

 

Is there a way I can join all the computers to a domain and manage their permissions or is there a way to restrict access to some users without a domain?

 

Thanks in advance,

[EIijah]

Homegroup, otherwise you need a 3rd party program I think

[mluton]

You need a domain controller to manage user access. But then you will loose the everyone access as they need to authenticate to connect to other machines. Or you can create a workgroup and manage user access locally on the machine with the shares. You can create users locally.

Are the machines on a static ip or getting them from a DHCP server ?

[ddswh1pk0s]

You need a domain controller to manage user access. But then you will loose the everyone access as they need to authenticate to connect to other machines. Or you can create a workgroup and manage user access locally on the machine with the shares. You can create users locally.

Are the machines on a static ip or getting them from a DHCP server ?

 

They are getting the IP addresses from a DHCP server. If I create a workgroup and manage user access on my computer (with the shares) do I have to make a new user on my computer?

 

Is a domain controller only available on windows server or can I do it on windows 10 pro?

 

If I use a HOMEGROUP, will the permissions I set work on devices that aren't running windows?

[techguru]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been using windows file sharing for several months now, and recently tried to make some permissions about what devices on my LAN can access certain files.

 

My friend at school has no problem creating permissions since all the school laptops are on the same domain, but at home, since there is no domain, I can't make any permissions, my only options are my account name, "everyone" or "create user".

 

Is there a way I can join all the computers to a domain and manage their permissions or is there a way to restrict access to some users without a domain?

 

Thanks in advance,

setup a ftp server

[Blake]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been using windows file sharing for several months now, and recently tried to make some permissions about what devices on my LAN can access certain files.

 

My friend at school has no problem creating permissions since all the school laptops are on the same domain, but at home, since there is no domain, I can't make any permissions, my only options are my account name, "everyone" or "create user".

 

Is there a way I can join all the computers to a domain and manage their permissions or is there a way to restrict access to some users without a domain?

 

Thanks in advance,

With windows shares, consider the following:

1. Share Permissions should be left liberally open (just give everyone Full Access).

2. Set the NTFS permissions for the restrictions, you are in for a world of hurt if you try to manage anything through share permissions.

3. As you have no domain permissions will be applied in this order (last permission sticks): Goups Allow -> Groups Deny -> Account Allow -> Account Deny.

4. Keep in mind that Anonymous logon is not included in the everyone group.

 

e.g. On a file/folder you want to only be accessable by you, then set you own account to allow on everything, then set a deny rule for the everyone group.

 

As you have no domain, all accounts will be on the target system (i.e. you wont be able to login to the 'server' with your 'workstation' username or password).

You can get a domain configured, but if you need to ask you won't be able to set one up, so i'd say clear of this.

[Lildirt]

Windows file sharing is outside of my experience, but I would recommend an alternative: FTP. SMB is, from my experience, not the greatest in the world and in performance tests (that aren't very scientific, I just did a quick speed test after setting up a SMB share with Linux <-> Windows machines), doing FTP over a network is simply faster. Maybe I'm just dumb and my home network is backwards, who knows. I'm only rambling on from experience, which might not equate to much to you.

 

If you're limited to using SMB, then I don't know what to tell you. Though there's not much of a reason why you should be. Don't want to force people to install FTP clients? Windows has native support for that (although admittedly it's pretty flaky as well).

[ddswh1pk0s]

If you're limited to using SMB, then I don't know what to tell you. Though there's not much of a reason why you should be. Don't want to force people to install FTP clients? Windows has native support for that (although admittedly it's pretty flaky as well).

 

Hi thanks for your answer,

 

I've got an FTP server that I already set up that I've started using over LAN, and internet.

 

I've found that FTP is actually great so far but in Windows Explorer whenever I try and open anything it opens in google chrome.

And for some reason, when trying to stream video files from FTP over LAN in VLC it doesn't work at all, and the filezilla logs don't report any activity. But over internet FTP video streaming in VLC is fine.

[Lildirt]

Hi thanks for your answer,

 

I've got an FTP server that I already set up that I've started using over LAN, and internet.

 

I've found that FTP is actually great so far but in Windows Explorer whenever I try and open anything it opens in google chrome.

And for some reason, when trying to stream video files from FTP over LAN in VLC it doesn't work at all, and the filezilla logs don't report any activity. But over internet FTP video streaming in VLC is fine.

 

Odd. I never trust Windows Explorer when it comes to really any file transfer operations. It's horrendously slow no matter how you spin it, especially remotely (even on LAN).

 

I don't know what's up with VLC's FTP streaming problems. You might want to look that up on a search engine or head over to the VideoLAN website and submit a bug report through that.