Network Server Security

Question

Dear Friends,

Please I have a windows server 2019 Standard and I shared files which others can access through the network but I want this server to always ask for credentials each time anyone wants to access the shared file, please how do I do this?

I want this done because in the shared folder are software and application's that only an I.T personnel is required to install from it, so no user can just go there to copy or paste anything there.

Answer 1

Hello there,

You could use a script that would remove all of the connections for a resource, and then prompt you for credentials to remap it, if you wanted to.

The drawback with the other approach of mapping it via the command line (when run as a different user) means you can't use Windows Explorer to navigate it.

The biggest problem you will have here is that you can't have muliple connections to one resource by multiple user accounts.

So say you can access \server\share1\myfolder as domain\user1, you cannot map a drive or add other credentials to that resource to access \server\share1\myfolder\secure as domain\user2

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Answer 2

Why you ever want this? I strongly believe that you are trying to solve an XY problem.

Current authenticated user credentials are used to authenticate on a shared folder. Since user is already logged in to their workstation, then user already knows the password. Asking for same password is pointless from security perspective, it doesn't solve any problem.

If you want to restrict who can access (and access level) shared resource -- use shared folder and NTFS permissions.