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MCTS 70-680: Windows 7 File Sharing

This video looks at the two different ways that you can share files on the network with Windows 7. These are basic sharing and the advanced sharing. Advanced sharing gives you a lot more control over the share and allows additional options like configuring a comment for the share. File Sharing Demo 03:53 File Sharing Permissions The 3 basic file sharing permissions are read, read/write and full control. The read/write permissions gives you the ability to delete files. Full control adds the ability to change file permissions and also take ownership of files. When these permissions are combined with NTFS permissions the most restrictive permission is used. For example, if you share a folder with read only permissions then the most access the user can have will be read only. Public folder sharing This allows you to have a folder that anyone can access even without a username and password. Configuring Simple Sharing To share a folder using simple folder sharing, right click the folder and select the option share with. This will allow you to share the folder via HomeGroup or with specific people. Simple sharing uses a wizard to share the folder so you won’t have too many options that you can configure. Configuring Advanced Sharing To access advanced sharing, right click the folder, select properties and then select the sharing tab. On the sharing tab there is a button Advanced Sharing which will allows you to configure the advanced sharing options. The Advanced Sharing options