Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...

Your company's network administrator sets the users' access rights and roles to Microsoft Outlook folders. Access rights enable users to share folders such as their ...

I'd like to do the following: Change all permissions for all existing users' home folders to grant their account full control and administrators full control, everything else removed. I've looked ...

I'm relatively new to Windows server management. I'm trying to setup folder redirection with GPO. The file server that's getting redirected is in a LXD fedora container. To me this indicates a problem ...

A file system provides attributes for files and directories on an operating system to help you determine which users on your computer can read, modify, or execute the contents of its files and ...

A few weeks ago, I answered a reader question about “inherited permissions,” or how to deal with a shared folder that multiple people use via file serving on a regular Mac, not one running macOS ...

Take ownership of the Data folder. Run SFC and DISM scans. Disable and re-enable the Windows Search feature via the Command Prompt. Create a new user profile. Let’s ...

The home folder permissions in OS X are set up in such a way as to provide you access to your files, but only allow other users to see certain shared folders in your account. Every now and then people ...

Depending on your account setup, or small modifications you may have done to your home folder, you may prevent people from being able to see any local Web sites you are hosting through the Web Sharing ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion makes system wide changes to standard folder ownership and permissions to enhance security, finding and recommending changes where necessary. Apple reportedly informed developers ...