How to Folder Share in Windows Server 2012

Although we are in the days of cloud computing, visualization, and all kinds of other good practices, organizations still rely on tried and true collaboration there method: Windows file sharing. Although he was a wizard in the Windows folder share from the beginning, that you can share a folder on the Windows Server 2012 process has undergone some changes.

Before you start, I assume that you have already installed the file services role and the storage that comes with the server. If not, you must install it to continue.

Open the Certificate Manager and navigate to the files and storage services. Again, go to actions, and then click New task option.

Starting the share creation process:

The first question you ask about the protocol you want to use the new resources. You can choose between installing SMB and NFS services. For both, there are several configuration files, you can choose from. In the table below, you can see the list of profiles, and short description of each.

Note that I've chosen to create a standard SMB share with the Advanced option so you can see more options later on.

Next, provide the path to the folder that you'd like to share. You can also choose to share a whole drive. I'm sharing a folder named C:\MySharedFolder.

Next Specify the name and description of the share. The shared name to match the name of the folder. I'm also a published name TechRepublic d shows the path name/full network share.

There are a lot of additional options, you can enable sharing. Access-based enumeration is used when you add a Windows. It allows users to see only files and folders that have been granted access permissions, you cannot even see that there are other projects. You can also enable branchcache cache in other systems that you want to use shared folders. Finally, you can encrypt the new shared resources of the remote access.

Options applied NTFS permissions before, the next step is common. Give you the permissions that needs to be in effect with this useful resource.

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Review your selections and click the Create button when you're ready to create the share.

You are provided with a full progress update.