topic Re: CIFS share permissions Everyone vs. Authenticated Users in Network and Storage Protocols

CIFS share permissions Everyone vs. Authenticated Users

MMONTEN01 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:02:17 GMT

Hi,

Is there any benefit to changing the default CIFS share permission from everyone/Full control to Autheniticated Users/Full Control?

I am locking the shares using NTFS permissions however, some people have requested, in addition to NTFS perms to allow only some users access, the share perms get updated to authenticated users/full control. Is this somehow providing another level of security that I am just not aware of?

CIFS share permissions Everyone vs. Authenticated Users

ANILPAWAR1988 — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:17 GMT

Yes, it will help you security purpose and you can allow only Authenticated user for share access..

Re: CIFS share permissions Everyone vs. Authenticated Users

MMONTEN01 — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:13:07 GMT

If I have CIFS share perms set to Everyone/full control and the shared folder ntfs perms with only ntdom\user1 listed, how does changing everyone/full control to authenticated users/full control provide any additional security?

Looking at the documentation: " A share-level ACL only restricts access to files in the share; it never grants more access than the file-level ACLs."