Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
    • Assigning Passwords to Screen Savers
    • Changing Your Password
    • Sharing Resources on Your Computer
    • Sharing Folders and Disk Drives on Your Computer
    • Setting File Permissions
    • Creating and Sharing a Printer
    • Sharing an Already-Defined Printer
    • Setting Printer Permissions
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Setting File Permissions

Windows 2000 lets you define who may connect to your shared folders and what they may do with the folders' contents. You do this by defining Permissions for your shared folders. You may define permissions for individual users or for groups of users, both as defined in the User Manager.

You can define the following permissions for a shared folder:

• Full Control
• Change
• Read

The permissions listed above give the following powers to users:

• Full Control, Change, and Read Viewing file names and folder names in the shared folder and its subfolders. Reading the contents of files and executing programs in the shared folder and its subfolders.
• Full Control and Change Creating new folders in the shared folder and its subfolders. Adding files to the shared folder and its subfolders. Changing the contents of files in the shared folder and its subfolders, and removing subfolders and deleting files in the shared folder and its subfolders.
• Full Control On NTFS-formatted drives only, changing permissions of subfolders and files in the shared folder and its subfolders. Also, taking ownership of subfolders and files in the shared folder and its subfolders.

If you choose not to set any permissions for a shared folder, Windows automatically grants Full Control to the group Everyone on all of your shares. The group Everyone is a system-defined group that includes everyone who can connect to your computer by network.

Set permissions for a shared folder as follows:

1. Right-click the folder you want to set the permission for, and then choose Sharing.
2. Click Permissions. The Permissions for <resource name> dialog box appears. See Figure 16.5. It lists users and groups and displays the permission assigned to them. You can change the permission of a listed user or group. You can remove a user or group from the list. You can add a user or group to the list and assign a permission to the added user or group.
   

   Figure 16.5 The Permissions dialog box from which you control who has access to your files.

3. Change a listed user's or group's permission by selecting the user or group in the Name list, then for each permission in the Permissions list, select allow or deny. If you leave the allow and deny blocks empty, you deny the user that permission unless she belongs to a group having that permission.
4. Remove a listed user or group from the Name list by selecting the user or group; then clicking Remove.
5. Add a user or group to the Name list by clicking Add. This opens the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, shown in Figure 16.6.
   

   Figure 16.6 The Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box.

6. Use the Look In field to choose a list of Domain or local accounts.
7. Select a user or group in the Names list; then click Add. The user will appear in the Add Names list. Use the Shift and Ctrl keys to select multiple users or groups in the Names list; then click Add to add all the selected names at once to the Add Names list.
8. Click OK to close dialog box, and then set the Permissions for each new person as described in step 3.
9. When you are finished adding all groups and people, click OK to close the dialog box.

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