I moved my pooled drives from a WHS 2011 set up to Windows 8. I just closed down WHS, moved the drives over to W8 where drivepool was already installed. Drivepool recognised the drives and after a while recreated the pool.
However, some of my shared folders under WHS had permissions set to only allow access from specified users, and I found Windows couldn't access the pool, nor 3 out of my 5 drives, they were assigned a drive letter, but no access.
I realised it was because of permissions, so I was able to change the ownership of the inaccessible drives, and the pool to 'System', and then add my new Windows 'Users' to the access group and can now see all drives and folders and files.
I then wanted to share those pooled folders, and also found again I had set permissions, because there were some folders that had 'special' permissions set, and with 'unknown' users. I think I've now removed all those users with special permission, and 'everyone' can access the shared folders.
I've never had to set permissions or security before, it was done seamlessly in WHS and specifying read only, or read/write, or no access was easy. I'd now like to try and recreate similar with my pooled shared folders under W8, but I'm struggling.
For example, if I have a pooled shared folder 'Work' on computer named 'DELL' and only want a single user to access it, who maybe logged on any of the networked PCs, and for everyone else to be 'denied access', how would I set that up? I know this isn't going to be high security, I just want to prevent other family members accidentally altering or deleting files I use for business. Can it done with W8?
It was so easy with WHS, now I'm a bit lost and any help would be appreciated.
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I moved my pooled drives from a WHS 2011 set up to Windows 8. I just closed down WHS, moved the drives over to W8 where drivepool was already installed. Drivepool recognised the drives and after a while recreated the pool.
However, some of my shared folders under WHS had permissions set to only allow access from specified users, and I found Windows couldn't access the pool, nor 3 out of my 5 drives, they were assigned a drive letter, but no access.
I realised it was because of permissions, so I was able to change the ownership of the inaccessible drives, and the pool to 'System', and then add my new Windows 'Users' to the access group and can now see all drives and folders and files.
I then wanted to share those pooled folders, and also found again I had set permissions, because there were some folders that had 'special' permissions set, and with 'unknown' users. I think I've now removed all those users with special permission, and 'everyone' can access the shared folders.
I've never had to set permissions or security before, it was done seamlessly in WHS and specifying read only, or read/write, or no access was easy. I'd now like to try and recreate similar with my pooled shared folders under W8, but I'm struggling.
For example, if I have a pooled shared folder 'Work' on computer named 'DELL' and only want a single user to access it, who maybe logged on any of the networked PCs, and for everyone else to be 'denied access', how would I set that up? I know this isn't going to be high security, I just want to prevent other family members accidentally altering or deleting files I use for business. Can it done with W8?
It was so easy with WHS, now I'm a bit lost and any help would be appreciated.
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