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Setting "Everyone" in File Sharing to Work with Specific Users
Hi All,
I have been attempting to understand file sharing where you specify permissions for specific users, but I get conflicting advice from the Win 10 forums and very recent 2016 and 2017 articles. I searched your forums and tutorials and have not found an answer either. The methods suggested by the articles are similar except for one BIG difference—they handle what to do with the “Everyone” Group differently. My comments below are in bold and in brackets and I have written below what I found so far and what I intend to do. If you want to skip reading that and just tell me what you do, I would appreciate that too.
1. I want to share folders/files in this way: Users A, B, C and D will have read/write access to a group of folders/files. User E will not have access to those folders/files. User D and E have separate user accounts on the same PC. Users A, B and C have separate PC’s. If D and E sharing the PC is a problem with file sharing permissions, I will get separate PC’s for everyone.
2. I want to share folder/files using File Explorer method.
3. The folder/files will be secured behind the Windows login information on the sharing PC so I can allow access to just specific users.
On one Reddit forum (sorry I lost the url), this was the method suggested: Right click on the folder you want to share=>advance=>mark : share this folder=>add . . .[the User Name]-->advanced=>make sure everything is marked under “object types . .=> find now=>select who to share with under the “names” column=>select shared user from the list and permissions you grant them from the check boxes (for read and write or “777” permission [not sure that that is] permission tick all 3 boxes in the allow column=>click ok=>done. [No mention of “Everyone” but I think it is under Properties=>Sharing=>Advanced Sharing=>Permissions by default].
On http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/...-on-windows-10, the article keeps the “Everyone” group under Advanced Sharing=>Permissions and tells you to ADD the specific User Names you want to allow access, making sure you tick the boxes which grant “Change” permission. [this is similar to the instruction from Reddit above, but adds Users Names in by going to Permission in a different way—you must type them out instead of selecting them].
On PUREInfoTech, http://pureinfotech.com/setup-networ...ng-windows-10/, they tell you the same method as above from Reddit and Geeksquad, except when you get to Permissions (where the Everyone group is the default) they instruct you to REMOVE the Everyone group and ADD the specific User Names you want to share. Of course, you tick the boxes for Change and Read or for Full Control.
This is what happened to me when I followed each set of instructions---PERMISSION DENIED for the all the specific users. The only way I could give Users A, B, C permission to share the files/folders was to go into Properties=>Sharing and just add the Everyone group. So, I did not go into Advanced Sharing, but the problem is, while I solved the file sharing issue—I cannot exclude D—he gets access too. So, I am back to square one, not understanding how this file sharing works. I thought Properties=>Sharing was for local files and Properties=>Sharing=>Advanced Sharing is for network shares.
Thanks in advance.