Re: Protecting a Shared Folder?

From: Gary Koh (recoil1@cyberway.com.sg)
Date: 10/05/02 

From: "Gary Koh" <recoil1@cyberway.com.sg>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 07:36:48 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>If you do not want all and everyone accessing the
>share, do not use "the" guest account. The predefined
>Guest account has a blank password so that the account
>can log in for anyone without them needing to know
>the password. You can set a password on the Guest
>account, but it is IMO better to just define an account
>that you will use for this sharing purpose and leave
>the Guest account alone.
>You set passwords in the Users applet in control
>panel, which is also where you would define an
>account for this use. Just what you need to do on
>the share and on the area shared depends some on
>you version of XP and its current sharing settings.
>If you do not have NTFS as a filesystem, you should
>first convert to NTFS before sharing (not required,
>just something I would recommend).
>
>--
>Roger Abell
>MS MVP (Security, Windows), MCDBA, MCSE both
>Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>

first up roger thanks for the help and advice...
i've tried as you suggested and added a new user and a
password and tried using that instead of the guest
account. i have disabled simple file sharing and find
that remote users trying to access the folder don't get
promptem for the password at all... they just get a
message saying the folder is inaccessible. i can loging
fine however, and this i put down to being a local user
logged in as admin. in your last post you also implied
that a password could be set for a guest account? i
don't see how....

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