Creating and securing SMB shares

With your file server service set up, the next step in deploying a file server is to create SMB shares and then secure them. For decades, administrators have used the net.exe command to set up shared folders and more. This command continues to work in Windows Server 2022 (and Windows 10/11), but you may find the SMB cmdlets easier to use, particularly if you're automating large-scale SMB server deployments.

This recipe looks at creating and securing shares on a Windows Server 2022 platform using the PowerShell SMBServer module. You also use cmdlets from the NTFSSecurity module (a third-party module you previously downloaded from the PS Gallery).

You run this recipe on the file server (FS1) that you set up and hardened in the Setting up and securing an SMB file server recipe. You create and share a folder (F:\ITShare) on the file server in this recipe. Then, you create a file in the C:\ITShare folder and set the ACL for the files to be the same for...