Hi, I have partitioned my hard drive and moved all my data to a seperate partition. I am trying to reshare some of the folders, and struggling to understand the best practices and actually set the NTFS permissions correctly. I shared the folder, and set the permissions to Authenticated Users having full control. Is that best practice? I access the machine remotely, so created a read only user. When I click on Security, I see Authenticated Users, SYSTEM, Administrators, Users and the user that I'm logged in as. Do I change any of those settings? I added the new user, and gave it read only priviledges. Is that all I do? thanks! David

the best practies for share check this links http://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-things-you-should-know-about-working-with-ntfs-permissions/6059618 http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Share-Permissions.html http://www.copyrunstart.net/understanding-windows-shared-permissions-vs-ntfs-security/ Mohamed Abd Elhamid Abd Elaziz Microsoft System Administrator Abdul Samad Al Qurashi Co.