Re: Win2k8 in a workgroup - share permissions

Al Dunbar" <alandrub@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"msnews.microsoft.com" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
A friend bought a Windows 2008 server to start a small business.
It is the only server and it is in a Workgroup.

I created a folder on the server called "Finance"
This server has 3 user accounts, User1, User2, and User2
I created a Group called "Financial Admins"
I put all 3 user accounts in this group called Financial Admins
I went to provision a share
I changed the NTFS permissions to Financial Admins = Full Control
I changed the share permissoins to Everyone = Full Control

With a laptop in the same workgroup and logging on as User1 (with the
same password as set on the server) I try to access the Finance folder.
I get Access Denied.
If I add my account User1 to the NTFS permissions, I can access it no
problem.

So when I try to control permission with Groups it is not working. But
specifically putting in individual user accounts it works just fine.
So what am I missing?
Thanks in advance!

It would appear that the trick of having identically named and passworded
accounts on different computers in order to simulate a trust environment
works only when the accounts are used directly. But a local group on a
machine in a workgroup can only contain local accounts (and groups) on the
same machine.

I'd recommend that you convert the workgroup to a domain.

/Al


I guess that doesn't make sense to me. They only have 3 employees. Domains
are for 50 or more people.
How do small companies that use a workgroup handle security like this then,
just forget about using groups for security?
Thanks.



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