Windows Share within a Share

[jmr9999]

Does anyone have any best practices or opinions on having a share placed under an existing share? I have taken Inheritance off the parent share, but am wondering what other ramifications I need to worry about.

 

[intelwizrd]

I have done this a couple of times. ex: we have a directory for our accounting team and it has a series of subdirectories. A couple of people provide data to the accounting team and for the accounting team only so I made the subdirectory where that data lives a share for only those people. This keeps all of the accounting data in one place and allows for a small subset of people access to a subset of the data.

I try not to do it for most things as it can make permissions confusing especially if you change the root directory and have turned of inheritance on the subdirectory.

 

[jmr9999]

That is a similar situation I am contemplating. I have manually edited the permissions on the daughter folder in my test environment. It would be for data collection purposes. Just seeing if I have missed any security issues and such.