File it!Brian Dewey's Blog: All about file systems, storage, and miscellanyUnderstanding ACLs in NTFS- January 21, 2004 Associating Access Control Lists (ACLs) with files is the fundamental mechanism for securing file system data. Consequently, the 1 rule for securely storing data in files is to ensure the proper ACLs are on your files. Using NTFS so you can have ACLs is not enough. You need to know what ACLs you want to put on your files, and you need to know how to go about putting ACLs on your files so you can avoid common mistakes. For determining what ACLs to put on files, refer to Writing Secure Code,...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_dewey/archive/2004/01/20/60902.aspx What's the "Web Client Network"- January 19, 2004 I had a customer ask me this today, so in case others are wondering: What's the &8220;Web Client Network&8221; If you open Windows Explorer, click Network Neighborhood, then click Entire Network, you'll see an icon for Web Client Network. The customer saw nothing under this icon, so was wondering why it was there in the UI. The short answer is that icon is present to display any WebDAV connections that your machine has. As many machines don't make WebDAV connections, that's why there was...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_dewey/archive/2004/01/19/60356.aspx What makes a valid Windows file name- January 19, 2004 A common question for people starting to program on Windows is, &8220;What makes a valid Windows file name&8221; You want to use this information to make simplifying assumptions in your code: that names can be no longer than MAX_PATH, that two names won't differ only by case, etc. Unfortunately, the answer to what makes a valid file name in Windows is not simple. Due to the layering of Windows architecture, the definition of a "legal" file name may vary depending upon the component of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_dewey/archive/2004/01/19/60263.aspx Welcome- January 19, 2004 Hello. I'm the Lead Program Manager for network file system technologies in Windows. As I've watched the adoption of blogs as a way to share information among the development community, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a place to share tips and tricks about interacting with the file system in Windows. Thus, this blog was born. I'll use this space to share information on interacting with file systems, network file systems, our built-in file replication engine, etc. Let me know what...http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_dewey/archive/2004/01/19/60258.aspx |