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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

I've got a media directory (mp3s, some videos). I'd like for the owner and group users to be able to make directories, and any subsequent files to default to 660 permissions. Is this a job for setfacl ...

Sometimes while trying to tweak your system configurations an extra mile, we end up changing the permissions for certain system files and remove the inbuilt TrustedInstaller account as an integral ...

Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...