Re: Can I hide my personal information from administrators of a domain?

From: Dmitriy Kopnichev (kopn_at_hotbox.ru)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:54:49 +0300

I get "Change Password
The system cannot change your password now because the domain RNE is not
available." The domain RNE is available because I'm able to logon to my
domain account.
<nospam.please@ualberta.ca> wrote in message
news:bnmmc6$n3v$3@tabloid.srv.ualberta.ca...
> What you can do partially depends on whether you are a local administrator
of
> your machine, or a "user" or a "power user". (If you are a "guest", you
had
> better act like one, if you want to be invited back).
>
> If you are not a local administrator, there is almost nothing you can do
to
> hide your files from administrators, except maybe to keep them in a
> password-protected zip file or something like that.
>
> If you are a "user", you normally will not be able to create shares or
change
> permissions, but if you are a "power user" or "administrator", you may be
able
> to create shares to allow others access to folders over the network, or
change
> permissions to allow different access.
>
> If you are a local administrator, you usually can change permissions to
deny
> access to domain administrators - but they can change those permissions,
too,
> unless you remove them from being administrators on your machine - in
which
> case your machine could then be considered to be no longer a fully
functioning
> member of the domain, and you would be pretty much on your own.
>
> In article <ea1TnxTnDHA.2416@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, "Dmitriy Kopnichev"
> <kopn@hotbox.ru> wrote:
> |Hello
> |Can I hide my personal information from administrators of a domain in
which
> |my computer is? Or how to share a folder on my computer with other
members
> |of the domain?

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