Requirements

Sureview requires a Windows Network Share (SMB) to store audited media to in accordance with the Minimum Requirements.

Location Options

The share can be hosted...

• by your IT team (for example via a redundant high performance SAN)
• on the Sureview servers themselves

Guidance: Managing Shares

To manage file shares on a Windows Server use the following PowerShell commands (this method works on a server regardless of having a GUI available - to use the Windows GUI refer to Microsoft documentation).

Listing shares

Run the following command to list the shares on a computer with their names and folder paths:

Get-SmbShare

Run the following command to list the Access Control List (ACL) for a specific share:

Get-SmbShareAccess -Name YourShareName

Run the following command to list the Access Control List (ACL) for a specific folder as a nicely formatted list (remember that the user must have access both to the share and the folder itself):

Get-ACL -Path C:\Your\Folder | Format-List

Creating shares

Run the following command to create a new folder, share it with the given name, and give write permissions to the folder and share to the Sureview service user:

$path = "C:\Filestore";
$serviceuser = "yourdomain\Sureviewservice";

Write-Host "Creating directory";
New-Item -Path $path -Type "directory";

Write-Host "Setting directory permissions";
$AR = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule($serviceuser, "Modify", "ContainerInherit, ObjectInherit", "None", "Allow");
$ACL = Get-Acl $path;
$ACL.SetAccessRule($AR);
Set-Acl $path $ACL;

Write-Host "Creating share";
New-SmbShare -Name "Filestore" -Path $path -FullAccess "Administrators" -ChangeAccess $serviceuser;