New Windows 10 install old media drives

[yardameus 221]

Hey All,

 

I've got an issue with my other networked computers being able to access my media drives on my "server" computer.  I had the system drive go bad, and have a newer install of windows 10.  My other network computers can see the public folders, but they can't see any of the other 3 hard drives that were previously on the old system.  From what I can see it seems to be maybe an issue of the ownership of the old drives/effective access.  I originally changed the ownership of the old drives to my user account, but I was wondering if it should be system or something else like that.  Never had this issue before, but that was also before Homegroup went away.  Sorry if I am not describing this properly, I lack some of the technical vocabulary perhaps.

[Luke 42078]

I've done this before. I had to change the ownership of top level folders recursively, which took a little bit of time. Then the access errors went away.

[yardameus 221]

Do you set the ownership to System, Administrator, or your User?  Also, do you mean in the situation of E:\Videos\Shows you would change ownership of Shows, then Videos instead of just changing ownership of the whole drive?

[Luke 42078]

It's been a while since i've done this so I don't remember the details. I would suggest researching it. But when you change ownership you specify that you want to do it recursively.

 

@ have you been through this?

[Guest asrequested]

I just apply mine to everyone. I don't have any users besides myself, so I added 'everyone' and set permissions and security for that.

[rbjtech 5284]

I just apply mine to everyone. I don't have any users besides myself, so I added 'everyone' and set permissions and security for that.

 

 .. which = Anonymous access.  At the very least i would personally set it to 'Authenticated Users' or even better to create an Emby group with all your users and use that.  You user account only is also far better than 'Everyone'.    Always set least privilege - that way, when something goes wrong - by human error or you get a nasty virus / ransomware, you limit damage or at least get challenged before you do it.    

[Guest asrequested]

.. which = Anonymous access. At the very least i would personally set it to 'Authenticated Users' or even better to create an Emby group with all your users and use that. You user account only is also far better than 'Everyone'. Always set least privilege - that way, when something goes wrong - by human error or you get a nasty virus / ransomware, you limit damage or at least get challenged before you do it.

In my case, at the moment, it's just me. And I have other security measures in place. I'm a bit of a control freak, and I micromanage my network. There isn't much that would happen that I wouldn't see. I would adapt my network to whatever my usage would be, VLANs, permissions etc. For those who want to set it and forget it, it's probably not a good way to do it. If anything gets through what I have, they would have to target my system and not use a generic script or bot. I've had ransomware make attempts from within my network, and it didn't get past the folder it was in. I wipe and rebuild periodically, too. As I said, I'm a bit of a control freak

Edited June 24, 2019 by Doofus