How to enable permissions in SQL Server 2012 FileTable folder share?

Question

After successfully creating a FileTable, I tried viewing the fileshare but my permissions are denied. In Management Studio, right-clicking on FileTable then \"Explore FilteT

Answer 1

Can you check a few things?

Can you via Windows Explorer try to browse to each of the following:

\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME

\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME\[FILESTREAM Share Name]\  e.g MSSQLSERVER

\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME\[FILESTREAM Share Name]\[FILESTREAM Directory Name]

\\YOURCOMPUTERNAME\[FILESTREAM Share Name]\[FILESTREAM Directory Name]\[FILETABLE Table Name]

[FILESTREAM Share Name]

• this is the name as defined at the Server Insance level when you set FILESTREAM access up
• to check it, right click on the Server Connection in SSMS and choose Properties
• then look in Advanced --> FILESTREAM --> FILESTREAM Share Name

[FILESTREAM Directory Name]

• this is the name as defined in the database when you set FILESTREAM access up
• to check it, right click on the Database in SSMS and choose Properties
• then look in Options --> FILESTREAM --> FILESTREAM Directory Name

[FILETABLE Table Name]

• Remember when you name your table it has to conform with Windows Folder naming rules (ie avoid special characters) e.g "TABLE|WEIRDCHARACTER"

Note(1): I have found that if you give your user only "ALTER" permission on the Filetable Table it will be browseable at the

\\YOURCOMPUTER\MSSQLSERVER\FILESTREAM_DIRECTORY_NAME\

level but you wont actually be able to browse the contents of the "directory"

Note(2): if you only give SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT permission to a user on a filetable Table it will be able to access the folder with the fullpath and see the contents and act on them - create new files, modify existing files

\\YOURCOMPUTER\MSSQLSERVER\FILESTREAM_DIRECTORY_NAME\FILETABLE_NAME\

but not browse it at the FILESTREAM_DIRECTORY_NAME level - it in essence becomes a "hidden" directory that you must know the entire pathname to find (unless you guess it of course in a brute attack)