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3.
In the File Sharing dialog box, enter the names of users with whom you want to share
this folder. In the upper box, enter
Everyone
and then click Add. Note that Everyone
appears in the lower box. Click in the Permission Level column next to Everyone and
choose Read/Write from the pop-up menu. Then click Share.
4.
You'll see a message that your folder has been shared. Click Done.
5.
Click the Windows key on the keyboard and choose Administrative Tools.
6.
Open the Active Directory Users and Computers tool. Expand the current domain and
right-click the RD OU. Select New
➢
Shared Folder.
7.
In the New Object - Shared Folder dialog box, type
Shared Folder Test
for the name of
the folder. Then type the UNC path to the share (for example,
\\server1\Test Share
). Click
OK to create the share.
Once you have created and published the Shared Folder object, clients can use the My
Network Places icon to find it. The Shared Folder object will be organized based on the OU
in which you created it. When you use publication, you can see how this makes it easy to
manage shared folders.
Querying Active Directory
So far you've created several Active Directory resources. One of the main benefits of having
all of your resource information in Active Directory is that you can easily find what you're
looking for using the Find dialog box. Recall that I recommended that you always enter as
much information as possible when creating Active Directory objects. This is where that
extra effort begins to pay off.
Exercise 5.12 walks you through the steps to find specific objects in Active Directory. To
complete this exercise, you must have completed Exercise 5.5.
e xercise 5.12
finding objects in Active Directory
1.
Click the Windows key on the keyboard and choose Administrative Tools.
2.
Open the Active Directory Users and Computers tool.
3.
Right-click the name of the domain and select Find.
4.
In the Find Users, Contacts, And Groups dialog box, select Users, Contacts, And Groups
from the Find drop-down list. For the In setting, choose Entire Directory. This searches
the entire Active Directory environment for the criteria you enter.
Note that if this is a production domain and there are many objects, searching the whole
directory may be a time-consuming and network-intensive operation.
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