Preparing Folders and Files

The hands-on exercises require that you set up specific folders and files.

Unzipping the Exercise Folders and Files

  1. On your Windows server, extract the Filr-Exercise-Folders-w.zip file at the root of Drive C.

Setting Up the Home_Folders Share

Configuring Home_Folders Share Permissions

Configuring Home_Folders NTFS Permissions

Assigning Home Folders

  1. Access the properties for each user in Test Users to Create that needs a home folder (last column) and set up a home folder connection in their profile tabs.

  2. Ensure that the home folders were created as expected.

Setting Up the Other Hands-on Exercise Folders and Files

Creating Shares and Changing Share Permissions

Table Share Permission Assignments

Folder Name

Users to Assign Full Share Permissions

Dev

ared; filrproxyuser

IS

ablue; filrproxyuser

Mrktg

ayellow; filrproxyuser

Sales

ablack; filrproxyuser

  1. Starting with folder Dev, share the folder, remove access for group Everyone, then add access and assign full control for the users listed in Share Permission Assignments.

Changing the NTFS Permissions

Table NTFS Permission Assignments

Folder Name

Users to Assign Full NTFS Permissions

Filr-Exercise-Folders

filrproxyuser

Dev

ared

IS

ablue

Mrktg

ayellow

Sales

ablack

  1. Remove NTFS permissions for the Users groups to Filr-Exercise-Folders.

  2. Add full control for filrproxy user to Filr-Exercise-Folders (as shown in NTFS Permission Assignments).

  3. Add full control to the other folders (starting with Dev), for the users listed in the right column.