What's the right way to set up user accounts?
From: Ryan Lambert (rlambert@netsourceit.com)
Date: 12/31/02
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From: "Ryan Lambert" <rlambert@netsourceit.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 06:42:35 -0800
Michael,
First of all, you need to enforce passwords. If these
users have access to data and can manipulate data on the
server and their machine is compromised, this puts the
integrity of your server at risk, which is also a very
large risk for your entire company.
It is a messy subject to fileshare from the workstations
on a Windows 2000 Domain with 95/98 computers. Peer to
peer sharing is done through a workgroup environment.
My advice to you is to migrate all of that data onto the
Windows 2000 Server dedicated data partition. If you
require additional hard drive space, fortunately for you
Hard Drives are quite inexpensive. Money spent on a new
quality hard drive is money well spent for your company.
After you have migrated the data to the Win2k Server, you
can then explicitly grant or deny user access to each
shared drive using NTFS permissions. I would recommend
browsing the Knowledge Base to get a better understanding
of the permissions, and also pick up a Windows 2000 Server
Administrator's Guide.
Ryan C. Lambert, MCP
NetSource
http://www.netsourceit.com/
>-----Original Message-----
>In a small office (7 computers + 1 w2k server), where we
>only care about pw on the server, what's the best way to
>give everyone free access to each other's computer? In
>the past, everyone logged on each other's as
Administrator
>with no PW, but now that we need user names to log onto
>the server, it becomes impossible to log on to peer
>computers. In other words, when Michelle boots her win
95
>machine as "michelle" with no pw, how do I configure the
>other machines so they accept "michelle" with no pw when
>she goes to read their drive? The server right now has a
>separate account for each user.
>
>Should I be using a guest account somehow?
>
>thanks
>Michael
>.
>
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