Guest Account vs Other computers on the network

From: DenoxiS (google_at_deniznet.com)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: 6 Nov 2003 17:17:12 -0800

Hi,

I want to setup an account for an intern started in my friend's
office. There are 4-5 computers in the office under a workgroup, and
all of them has some folders shared over the network. They want the
intern to access the Internet, run MS Office and that's it. They don't
want this account to;
1) Access any other computer on the network.
2) Access any other folder on the same computer.

When I open the Guest account, everything looks pretty much what they
need but the Guest account can access to local folders. To avoid this
I added the Guest account to the user list under the Security tab for
each folder, and checked the "Deny All" box. After that Guest could
only access to the internet and its own folder. On the other hand as
soon as I gave "deny" for the guest, access to these folders from
other computers on the network also denied. When I remove the "deny",
Guest and other network users could access to the local folders.

Do the other computers on the network have the same rights as the
guest? Is there any way to seperate them? i.e. Can I give read/write
access to the remote guests while limit the local Guest?

I also tried to create a limited account, but it has much more rights
to limit so I don't know if I really need to go there.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

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