I am in the process of setting up a network for a school district. Each students has their own personal folder on the file server. In the root of the file server is a folder called STUDENTS containing additional folders by grade year. 2008 to 2019, one for each graduation year and inside that are the student folders by name. How can I get it so a kid has read write permissions for only his or her folder? Thank you kindly !

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Thank you for the quick reply. The primary problem i'm having is that the Shared permissions that are set to READ are being inharited and outweighing Security permissions set to Full. When I disable (or uncheck) the inheritable permisions in Security Advanced. Is there any way around this ?

The File and Share permissions should be the same. Full Control of the shares is not necessary for the users. Modify will suffice. You want to disable the option to inherit from Parent. Life's more painless for the brainless.

File and Share permissions should not and are not the same. Share permissions are share permissions. File permissions are file permissions. The aren't related. However, when they combine, the MOST restrictive of the two wins. So if you have Everyone Read for Share and Everyone Full Control for File, the most restrictive wins = Everyone Read. I typically will set the Share permissions to full control and lock things down with the file, AKA NTFS permissions. This will give you more flexibility and less headaches. If your NTFS permissions are set correctly, it won't matter that Share permissions are at full control. Sine the most restrict permissions are the effective permissions, the NTFS permissions will end up being the effective permissions. This is by design and makes sense once you understand it.