Setting Network Rights

The process for a user to enable another user to view the contents of a specific network folder (on the H or S drive) is called 'Granting Rights'. The process is fairly straightforward:

1. Double click on the "My Computer" window, and then on the Network Drive containing the folder/file you wish to share.
2. Right-click on either the Folder or File (you can share the entire folder, or a single specific file within the folder) and select "Properties"
3. In the Properties window, click on the "Netware Rights" Tab
4. In the middle window, select your appropriate context:
   • ADM for staff
   • EWG > FAC  for Faculty
   • Infoman for IT staff
   • EWG > ST for Students
5. Click once on the name of the person to whom you wish to grant rights, and then click "Add" to the lower left. The person's name will now appear in the top window, under "Trustees". Two boxes will automatically be checked off to the right of the name: R and F.
6. Repeat the above procedure to add as many persons as you wish. If you need to remove someone, click their name in the top window, and then click the "Remove" button.

The grantable rights are:

• S: Supervisor - All rights to a file. This right cannot be set by the individual user.
• R: Read - The trustee can read the contents of folders (or of a single file within a folder if that's all that was granted)
• W: Write - The trustee can write to an existing file
• E: Erase - The trustee can erase a file
• C: Create - The trustee can create new files within the folder (if rights were granted to an entire folder. This doesn't apply if the trustee only has rights to a single file within a folder)
• M: Modify - The trustee can modify an existing file
• F: File Scan - The trustee can see the file in a directory listing
• A: Access Control - The trustee can add or remove other trustees to the file or folder. (Be VERY Careful with granting Access Control, as it is very easy for a trustee to a folder to delete YOUR rights to a folder on YOUR H drive)

By default, trustees are granted Read and File Scan access to a given file or folder. The latter allows them to find the file/folder on the network, and the former allows them to read the file.

Note that it is possible for faculty to share folders with students, but it is difficult for students to get at these shared folders. They need to follow these steps:

1. Go to My Network Places, and then select the following:
2. Novell Connections
3. TCNJ
4. TSC
5. ITNET
6. Servers
7. TCNJ11
8. HOME
9. USERS
10. And then the username of the faculty person who has granted access