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Permission Puzzle: Can't Exclude User but Allow Others to Access
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New #32
on win8 pro machine (with the user folder 1-4 shares) : Password Protected Sharing - Turn On or Off in Windows 8
Works?
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New #33
Ok, I did all the above and I determined that user accounts 5 and 6 are logging on as Guests and not under their user account names, so your observation that the Win 8 Pro PC acting as server could not identify them was on target. I checked that users accounts 5 and 6 exist on the PC server running Win 8 Pro with the same password as they have on the Workgroup PC. I then turned on password protection on the Win 8 Pro PC (it was off, I thought it was on) and logged off user accounts 5 and 6 and then logged back on. Both accounts were denied access. I am not sure how to configure the share and NTFS permissions after that.
I did check Computer Management/Shared Folders/Sessions and Opened Files and only saw Administrator, Administrators and Homegroup listed.
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New #34
useraccounts 1-4 can still access all you want?
user account 6 access denied. So logged on succesfully? Assume it's connected to usershare1. What are share permissions? What are NTFS permissions of that folder?
Try to logon with useraccount6 on win8 pro. Can it access usershare1 folder?
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New #35
On #1 you see the shares are accessible by EVERYONE (FULL CONTROL). Also some extra permissions that are of no use. EVERYONE may everything.
The real protection will be done by NTFS. That's the normal way a system administrator manages it. For NTFS permissions....try to avoid explicit DENY permissions. DENY permissions are very difficult to manage.
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New #36
Whew! I think we are nearing the end and turning the corner. I have followed your guidance and made a chart/matrix so that everyone in the forum could easily follow. Can you tell me if this matrix which I included below looks like it would work. Please look first at the notes at the bottom of the matrix. The permissions settings for the "J" drive I believe are the default settings, so I didn't change those. I also deleted the "Parent" folder that you saw in #1 above.
I also don't understand what the difference is between "Administrators" and "Administrator." Thanks.
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New #37
It looks like you shared the J drive and all its subfolders to EVERYONE. The NTFS permission of J root folder look like the default. It's just like they formatted a new local drive and use it. So EVERYONE can access J:\gfhnfgfghn\fdbdf\subfolder2 as well!
All Administrators on file server and HOMEGROUP can use the folder1-4 share. SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator and HomeUsers have full control.
All Administrators on file server and EVERYONE can use the folder5 share. SYSTEM, Administrators, Administrator and HomeUsers and useracct6 have full control.
Administrators is a group and holds all accounts that have admin rights. Administrator is a real account .... the built-in admin account.
Why is whole J drive shared?
If PC1-4 is using USER6 ... it can still access folder5!
Is it working as expected now?
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New #38
Sorry, I have been away on business and could not work on the server for about a week.
J drive is no longer shared, and I put in all the changes you recommended, but at the end of the day I have to put "Everyone" in the permissions of each file (files 1-4) in order to give access to User Accounts 1-4 and 6 but when I do that, User Account 5 gains access too (which I don't want him to have) (see chart at #36 above). If I remove "Everyone" from the NTFS Permissions, then no one has access.
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New #40
I determined that the user accounts were not identified and were logging on as GUEST (see #33 above). But when I put password protected sharing on, it would not let them log on (again, see #33 above).
That's a good troubleshooting idea to try logging on with the user account on the remote PC, while you are at the remote PC . Maybe the problem is with the user account passwords not being similar. I will get back to you when I have a chance to test it.
Thanks for hanging in there!
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