Either way, you’re accessing a share via what’s known as a UNC path, which looks like this:
Ntfs vs share permissions windows#
When you access a share over the network, you typically either “map a drive,” or type an address into windows explorer.
For the sake of simplicity, let’s also assume that NTFS permissions on all files are open to everyone (by the way, these are examples of “open shares,” and they are definitely not something that you, your security team, or your auditors want on your network-we’ll discuss open shares in a future post). Let’s say that the share permissions on shareA are set to everyone read, and the share permissions on shareC are set to everyone read + write. Let’s call our server, “foo,” and the share names for A and C, “shareA” and “shareC.” The arrows indicate that both A and C are set up as shares. It has three folders, A, B, and C, where B contains C and A contains B and C.