It is important to understand how these different concepts interact and it will make any administrator’s life much easier. We’ll then move on to explain inherited permissions and elaborate on the differences between file permissions, share permissions, and their consequence: effective permissions. Our discussion will start with a short introduction to NTFS permissions. This is precisely what permission reporting tools can help you with and today, we’ll be reviewing the best NTFS permission reporting tools. But with the access rights inheritance that is built into NTFS and the interaction between file system rights and share rights, it can get complicated to have a clear picture of exactly who can access a given file.
As seen from a data standpoint, data should only be accessible by those users who need to access it. Security is one of the highest priorities of network administrators and one of the components of security is ensuring that users have access to the all the data they need and no access to what they shouldn’t see.
