Re: Loging in a domain

From: Miha Pihler (miha.pihler_at_Atlantis-N0Spam.si)
Date: 07/28/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:11:19 +0200

Hi Athwya,

It is not clear if you are working in domain or workgroup environment. If
you are working in domain environment it will be very hard to keep
administrator out of your hard disk. Even if you block him from certain
folder he can always take back ownership and gain access to the files.

If you are working in workgroup then you administrator most likely knows
local administrator password and can use it to gain full access to your
computer. Again under this condition he will always be able to gain access
to all the data on your PC.

Before you try to keep your administrator away from your hard disk check out
your security policy. Someone in the management department must trust the
administrator to allow him full access to the PC. I am sure they have a good
reason to trust him. Maybe you should to.

For more help let use know also what operating system you are using (Windows
XP Professional most lily) and what kind of permission you have on the
system (local administrator?). 

-- 
Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...
"Athwya" <athwya_eb@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:076b01c3550d$70c46200$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I loging in a local area network and the administrator of
> the local are network can explore my hard disk. how can I
> limit his access.

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