Re: Help? How do I enable password protection on shared drives?

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 01/18/03 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:00:24 -0700

FAT partitions may be partially protected.
In the NT family everything is done with accounts.
On the share properties of Pro there is a permissions
tab where you can regulate what accounts can get
what access to the share. This works no matter what
filesystem is used, FAT or NTFS. However, if you
have NTFS then you can also twiddle with the setting
of finer grain permissions on the storage itself.
In Home you are more limited in your sharing
choices, with the easiest thing being to just default
share things with your Guest account enabled and
with a password set on it. For FAT shared this way
that will let anyone who knows the password of the
Guest account do anything on the shared area. For
NTFS it will let them do according to the permissions
granted Guest, Guests, Authenticated Users or
NETWORK in the filesystem. 

--
Roger
"William Cheng" <wm_cheng@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:J7NV9.10685$0E.1121528@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Thanks, but some of my shared drives are not NTFS, in fact they are FAT32,
> only my system drive is NTFS.  Any suggestions of where I should go to
learn
> about NTFS security - ie; any good beginner web sites?  My other machines
> that access my WinXP are not XP, my laptop is Win98, and my wife's
computer
> is still in Win95 land (and happy).
> Thanks,
> William
>
>

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