WinCE File Server question

I've got a question about the File Server component in WinCE 5.0.

I've set up a file server and can access it fine from the network that
the CE device is connected to.

My question is: Does WinCE support permissions (i.e. read-only,
read-write) on the shares exported by the file server?

It's not a configuration option in the Remote Administration tool
(unless I've forgotten to add some component that gives me that ability).

It seems that once a user has access to a CE device, they have
read/write access to anything on the shares of the device. Is that a
true statement?

thanks,
Jeff Cooper
jeffc@logicpd.com

Ran
Thu Feb 03 16:48:11 CST 2005

As mentioned your Email, your'e using CE 4.2.

FileTime feature was mainly added/fixed in CE 5.0 - I verified that this
scenario doesn't repro on CE 5.0

Thanks,

Ran.

"Jeff Cooper" <jacooper@visi.com> wrote in message
news:41feaa34$0$15895$a1866201@visi.com...
> I've got a question about the File Server component in WinCE 5.0.
>
> I've set up a file server and can access it fine from the network that the
> CE device is connected to.
>
> My question is: Does WinCE support permissions (i.e. read-only,
> read-write) on the shares exported by the file server?
>
> It's not a configuration option in the Remote Administration tool (unless
> I've forgotten to add some component that gives me that ability).
>
> It seems that once a user has access to a CE device, they have read/write
> access to anything on the shares of the device. Is that a true statement?
>
> thanks,
> Jeff Cooper
> jeffc@logicpd.com

Jeff
Thu Feb 03 16:58:24 CST 2005

Ran,

Thanks for the reply but you've left me confused. I didn't mention CE
4.2 anywhere in my post.

Are you saying that with CE 5.0 you can change user permissions so that
the files the user has acesss to are either read-only or read-write?

If so, how do you do that?

What I want to do is to have a two shares on my file server, one for
data (read/write) and one for log files (read only). Log files are
deletable only by the CE device, not network users.

Is this possible with CE 5.0?

thanks,
Jeff

Ran Michaely (MSFT) wrote:
> As mentioned your Email, your'e using CE 4.2.
>
> FileTime feature was mainly added/fixed in CE 5.0 - I verified that this
> scenario doesn't repro on CE 5.0
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ran.
>
> "Jeff Cooper" <jacooper@visi.com> wrote in message
> news:41feaa34$0$15895$a1866201@visi.com...
>
>>I've got a question about the File Server component in WinCE 5.0.
>>
>>I've set up a file server and can access it fine from the network that the
>>CE device is connected to.
>>
>>My question is: Does WinCE support permissions (i.e. read-only,
>>read-write) on the shares exported by the file server?
>>
>>It's not a configuration option in the Remote Administration tool (unless
>>I've forgotten to add some component that gives me that ability).
>>
>>It seems that once a user has access to a CE device, they have read/write
>>access to anything on the shares of the device. Is that a true statement?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Jeff Cooper
>>jeffc@logicpd.com
>
>
>

coreyb
Mon Apr 04 14:21:37 CDT 2005

With CE 5.0 you can change user permissions for a share to be either read
only or read write.

If you shared "temp" folder as "myTempShare"

The following reg key gets added on the device:
HKLM\Services\Smbserver\Shares\myTempShare

Now, there are two reg keys that can be added under this reg key
ROUserList ---> Read Only users
UserList ---> Read/Write users

The value of each reg key is a REG_SZ, which is a semicolon separated list
of users.

So if you added Alice, Bob and Chris to the ROUserList, and Donna, Elliot
to the UserList you?ll end up with the following reg keys/values:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Smbserver\Shares\myTempShare]
"ROUserList "="Alice;Bob;Chris"
"UserList "="Donna;Elliot"

- Don?t forget to restart the SMB server for the settings to apply.