Re: Password access for folders over network

From: Chris Priede (priede@panix.com)
Date: 08/08/02 

From: "Chris Priede" <priede@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:44:16 -0400

In Windows 9x, the network logon always uses the currently logged on user
name, so you can't get it to prompt for username when accessing the share --
but you *can* get it to prompt for the password.

Set up Windows logon as the primary logon and log on with the correct
username, but use a blank password. Windows will then start without
prompting you to log on and will prompt you for the password only when you
try to map or access the share.

The downside of this setup is that it's hard to permanently map the share to
a drive letter (and most users don't know how to work with shares and map
them).

If you choose "Reconnect on Logon" when you map the drive, you will be
prompted for password on logon. You can cancel out of it, but it asks
another question and can be confusing. If you enable Quick Logon option in
Client for Microsoft Networks then you won't be prompted on logon, but will
receive "Access denied" instead of a password prompt when you try to use the
mapped drive later.

You could choose to save the share password -- but then, you will have no
security and anyone can turn the machine on and access the share. This may
be acceptable if you have sufficient physical access control and simply want
to limit the access from different computers (full permissions for the den,
read only for the kids' room). In most situations, however, it would be a
bad idea.

You could create a batch file the user can run to map the shares, containing
lines like this:

net use \\servername\sharename G:

...and put an shortcut icon to it on the desktop. Then, when they need to
access the network, they can click the icon, enter the password, and have
the drives mapped without actually knowing how to map drives.

Setting up a domain would give you startup scripts, policies, and a lot more
central control, but it would not help any with this issue.

Hope this helps, 

--
Chris Priede (priede@panix.com)
"Jimmy" <demetris18@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1c1b01c23ea6$e9b45cc0$b1e62ecf@tkmsftngxa04...
> Thanks a lot for the previous answer. So there is no other
> way to implement this without entering a username and
> password at the startup screen? Could you please explain
> how does using a domain change things? If my network
> belonged to a domain how would I do it?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Replied in the original thread.
> >
> >Basically, yes -- they need to log on with the correct
> username and
> >password.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Chris Priede (priede@panix.com)
> >
> >
> >"Jimmy" <demetris18@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:16ef01c23df4$3b18f0c0$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
> >> I created a user in the XP PC and made him member of
> >> users. Then I shared the folder I want that user to
> >> access and added him in the permissions box. But when I
> >> try to access that folder from another computer I
> >> get "access denied". Do I need to logon at that user's
> >> computer with the username and password for this to
> work.
> >> If yes, is there another way to do this? I want the user
> >> to be log normally into his computer (without username
> >> and password) and then when accesing the shared folder
> to
> >> enter his username and password. Is that possible?
> Thanks
> >> a lot.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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