Re: Sharing With Passwords

From: CBM (cbmarsh@loyno.edu)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "CBM" <cbmarsh@loyno.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 05:35:58 -0700

Thanks for the concise explanation. Ay least I'm clear on
what my options are now.

>-----Original Message-----
>That is how it is, and has always been, in the NT
>family when not in a domain environment.
>You can create a "generic" account and grant the
>share and ntfs accesses to this account. Everyone
>would then need to use this account and you would
>not have any individual auditing as to who is doing
>what. Also, everyone would need to log into the
>Win9x/Me boxen using this account. You would
>probably want to use the user rights on the sharing
>machine so that the account can be used for network
>login but not for local login.
>
>The other alternatives are:
>use a domain
>use an alternate sharing model, such as the web
>define accounts for each user on each machine
> that will be sharing out resources.
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>"CBM" <cbmarsh@loyno.edu> wrote in message
>news:3a6601c237f6$d43c0160$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
>> I work in a large office network setting. With Win98,
all
>> I hade to do was share a folder, set a password, and
only
>> give the password to those I wished to have access. Now,
>> with XP Pro, it seems my options are to share with
>> everyone on the network, or else set up accounts on my
>> machine for each individual I want to share the resource
>> with. This seems awfully cumbersome. Am I missing
>> something?
>
>
>.
>

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