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NTFS Junctions, Sharing and User Permissions
Hi all,
I have a peculiar situation. I tend to use NTFS junctions a lot to keep all my media in one place. I also make use of the Windows 7 Homegroup feature in order to easily access this media.
When I share a folder to a homegroup that contains, as subfolders, an NTFS junction, the user permission for 'HomeUsers' do not get applied (inherited) to all the folders inside the NTFS junction. Even though I can list the contents of that NTFS junction from another computer, I cannot enter into another level of directories.
Example:
D:\Media\ is a normal folder containing the following subfolders:
D:\Media\Audio which is a standard folder
D:\Media\Video which is a NTFS junction that points to say E:\Videos\
Right clicking on D:\Media\ and selecting Share With -> Homegroup allows me to then access this media over the network.
On another PC that is joined to the Homegroup I have full access to everything contained in D:\Media\Audio (Since it is not a junction), however, I can only list the contents of D:\Media\Video and nothing more. I cannot go another level deep of listing or anything.
Manually inspecting the user permissions, I notice that all the folders contained in D:\Media\Video\ does not have the 'HomeUsers' permission. However the NTFS junction itself does have the 'HomeUsers' permission.
So I tried two things:
- Manually adding the 'HomeUsers' permission to the content that the NTFS junction is pointing to, i.e. everything in E:\Videos\ . This still leaves this content inaccessible.
- Manually adding the 'HomeUsers' permission to the content inside the NTFS junction, i.e. everything in D:\Media\Video\ . No love.
Can anyone suggest how I would overcome this issue?