britechguy
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First, let me say that I am not trying to do this either for myself or someone else, but a question about this has come up elsewhere and has me curious as to whether it can be accomplished, and how.
The description of the setup, broadly speaking, is that there are multiple Win11 computers on a shared Private network. On one of these machines, the data partition was separated out from the Windows partition, and given a drive letter, E, in this case, on that machine. The explanation of what's wanted is this, "for several months, my friend was able to access all the folders on the new partition from the other computers over his network, but, since last October or so, Windows or something has changed the permitions for some of the folders on the new partition, while allowing total access to others."
The way I read this is that the intent is to kinda-sorta create an NAS-ish situation where the data partition on the computer where that was set up is being treated as a common repository that they want to be totally accessible to any other computer on the network, whether for reading and/or writing existing files, or creating new folders and/or files.
I know that this is a terrible idea, but I also wonder if it's even possible to set it up such that it would work as desired, given all the current security constraints that Windows imposes (and for good reason)? If it is possible, how would one do it?
The description of the setup, broadly speaking, is that there are multiple Win11 computers on a shared Private network. On one of these machines, the data partition was separated out from the Windows partition, and given a drive letter, E, in this case, on that machine. The explanation of what's wanted is this, "for several months, my friend was able to access all the folders on the new partition from the other computers over his network, but, since last October or so, Windows or something has changed the permitions for some of the folders on the new partition, while allowing total access to others."
The way I read this is that the intent is to kinda-sorta create an NAS-ish situation where the data partition on the computer where that was set up is being treated as a common repository that they want to be totally accessible to any other computer on the network, whether for reading and/or writing existing files, or creating new folders and/or files.
I know that this is a terrible idea, but I also wonder if it's even possible to set it up such that it would work as desired, given all the current security constraints that Windows imposes (and for good reason)? If it is possible, how would one do it?
