Everyone, Users, and Guests

From: e-head (ehead_at_nobodies.biz)
Date: 06/19/03 

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:00:40 GMT

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has found these three groups confusing.

Is the Everyone group only supposed to include authenticated users ? That
is, authenticated either on the local machine, or on a domain
via a domain controller. Anyone who "signs on" to any workgroup or domain in
this regard would be considered Everyone ?
And the only one's that would not be a part of this group are, say, 98 users
who hit cancel instead of signing on the workgroup/domain.

Guests are literally anyone, right ? Even if the person was not
authenticated on a domain or workgroup. So, e.g. , if you wanted to run an
anonymous ftp server and give read/write permission to everyone who came
along, you would grant this permission to Guests ?

If anyone could highlight the fine points between all these groups I would
appreciate it.

Also, Everyone seems hidden in XP. He is there, I can type him in and add
him, but he doesnt show up in the users and groups mmc.

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