Understand Security Permissions
The shared folders you’ve created can have one of three basic permissions: Reader, Contributor, and Co-Owner. For a basic home network, these permissions are suitable. But what if these just don’t work for you? What if you want to let a user access a shared folder to read files and modify those files but not create new ones and not run any executable programs stored in the shared folder? That goes a bit beyond the default share permissions and must be configured by using security permissions.
Security permissions are referred to as NTFS permissions. NTFS (an acronym for NT file system) is a technology available in Windows Vista that lets you specify exactly what you want people to be able to do with shared data. ...
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