groups and access

[Adam W.]

Everyone,
Pardon my following stupidity here. I am a UNIX Sa who has never in my life really used windows. However I now have 5 Windows 2003 systems on my hands. I have some developers who need full access to a particular directory. My question is , how do I go about giving them this access? Do I need to create groups? Can I add them individualy somehow? Please help.

[Jon Finley]

The easiest way to track what's been given, and restrict when necessary, is to create a group.
Assign permissions and privileges to the group.
Add members to the group.

Jon

[Adam W.]

Jon,
Again pardon my ignorance, but how do I go about that? How do I create groups and add into them the access/directories needed? Is there a form somewhere I can read?

[Jon Finley · Accepted solution]

Try the following links.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/techguide/windows/0,39044904,62038374,00.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa545961.aspx

To help with future: :-)
http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Maintaining-Microsoft-Windows-Environment/dp/0758097182/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227126654&sr=8-1

Jon

[Adam W.]

Thanks Jon. I appreciate your help.