File sharing permissions on a network?

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Hey guys,
I'm sure this is a very very stupid question and has a super simple answer but I can't seem to figure out the keywords to use to search it up online for the solution and so I come to y'all.

Basically, I just made a Windows 8 server / NAS for my home theater. Apart from it being a media center, I'm also going to use it for file back ups. (3x 2tb HDDs in Raid 5 at the moment)

Now, I have 4 members in my family. I will be the Admin, my sister will be a user and so will be my parents. I'll be laying out folders somewhat like this;

ROOT:
- MEDIA
- Admin
- Sister
- Parents

Now, by default (at the moment), the folder permission is accessible and write enabled by everyone, whoever accesses the server. I want to be able to write to Media and Admin whereas I want to give permissions to my sister to be able to write to her folder and my parents to theirs'.
Media is the common folder we can all write to (add movies, photos, what have you) but other dedicated folders I want to set permissions so only that 1 user can use it. They will be accessing the server via their respective laptops / PCs.

Do I need to add more users for this? And if so, do I add users on the server PC or on the clients' PC? Or do I make a user + password set that'll enable to do what I want them to do?

Also another question about Windows 8 RAID; as I mentioned earlier, I am on RAID 5 (parity) storage pool. Now, if one HDD dies, will Windows restructure the data for me if I replace the dead HDD? Or is that something only FreeNAS' ZFS system does?

Danke!
 
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1. On the server make a user account for each person who will access it, try and use the same username and password as they use on their normal computer, if you haven't already done it.
2. For the shared folders you need to change the sharing settings and security settings.
2.1. Navigate to the folder you are sharing, right click -> sharing (tab) -> advanced sharing -> advanced sharing (new window), check the "Share this folder" box, set the name of the share, click permissions (new window) -> set the "Everyone" group to full control, OK everything back to the properties window.
2.2. Security (tab) -> Advanced -> Change Permissions -> Remove check from "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" (root of the share folder...
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1. On the server make a user account for each person who will access it, try and use the same username and password as they use on their normal computer, if you haven't already done it.
2. For the shared folders you need to change the sharing settings and security settings.
2.1. Navigate to the folder you are sharing, right click -> sharing (tab) -> advanced sharing -> advanced sharing (new window), check the "Share this folder" box, set the name of the share, click permissions (new window) -> set the "Everyone" group to full control, OK everything back to the properties window.
2.2. Security (tab) -> Advanced -> Change Permissions -> Remove check from "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" (root of the share folder and any folder where you want to only grant access to specific people). For folders where everyone has access to them edit the "User" group permissions for read and write access, for folders where only specific people should have access then remove the "User" group, add the specific people who should have access and edit their permissions for the access they need.

Lastly, try not to use the "Deny" settings for permissions as these take precedent over "Allow" settings and can cause trouble with other permissions you are setting.
 
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Windows 8 server - is not something I am familiar with, it's either Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 desktop OS.

Anyway, I'm going to assume Windows Server 2012 as you're mentioning RAID 5 and the Windows desktop OSes don't support RAID 5, as far as I know. Yes, under RAID 5 if a hard drive fails Windows will build a new hard drive from the data on the remaining hard drives.

RAID comes in all shapes and forms. Some for speed, some for capacity, others for disaster recovery, yet more for a combination of them. Each RAID level is detailed in it's requirements and it's capabilities. Your devices will tell you what RAID levels they are capable of, whether this is in hardware or software. One thing they should not do is declare a RAID level they cannot meet the requirements for, this includes the ability to rebuild hard drives after drive failure.
 
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Thank you so much for the solid answer!

And my bad, its just desktop OS Windows 8 haha. There's the 'storage pool' section where I created Raid 5 so hopefully it works like it should!
 
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