Re: Guest Account vs Other computers on the network

From: Doug Knox MS-MVP (dknox_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:26:46 -0500

Do not use Deny, uncheck Allow instead. Deny permissions takes precedence
over Allowed permissions. 

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"DenoxiS" <google@deniznet.com> wrote in message
news:d2478899.0311061717.28df71fc@posting.google.com...
> 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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