Not putting them in the root avoids the need to modify the base NTFS
permissions on every new share you create. While defaults used to allow r/w
access for everyone, now the default is r/o for everyone. By pushing down a
level you can change it once and all new shares can inherit the new setting. I
create a Shares folder for that purpose. No clue why going down 2 levels
though. I get the path length part, but our users wind up exceeding that so
often I’ve just come to accept it. Move a 200 character path down the tree 8
levels to another 200 character path and what do you get? A mess. J
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Graeme Carstairs
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 5:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] Is there a reason not to have file shares in a drives root
folder
Recently came across some filservers that were setup as
F:\1\2\fileshares
When asked why they relied that they had an ms consultant who recommended this
as file share share should not be in the root folder and that 3rd level folder
was the reccomended place for them
They can't remember his reasoning
But the 1 and 2 was to keep the path small so not to run into path length issues
Does anyone know why this would be recommended ?
Tia
Graeme
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