New user, couple queries.
From: the.josie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/03/04
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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 05:04:18 -0800
Hi, just want to know if you got any answers to your
queries?
Thanks
the.josie@msa.hinet.net
>-----Original Message-----
>New user to XP but been using pc's since mid 80's and
Windows since version
>2.x. More or less up and going with a just recently
installed XP Pro on a
>dual-boot with 98SE system. I have 4 other pc's
connected via ethernet
>(wife and kids). As all the other pc's are "dated"
and "this" pc has the
>fancy gear (scanner, cam etc.), this one pc is often
also used by the wife
>and kids, hence I setup separate accounts for each of
them and figured I
>might as well enable the Guest account also.
>
>I'm getting very frustrated with what appears to be
how ":security" works.
>It seems to work around "groups", each group has
some "policy" that dictates
>what that group can do or not do. I've found no way to
create additional
>groups nor how to dictate exactly what "rules" apply to
each specific group
>(although have found how to change wife's account to
Power User).
>
>All of that seems to make it impossibile to control each
and every
>individual login specifically for that user (and perhaps
only that user).
>The login seems to have to belong to some group, you
can't seem to create
>and edit the rules for existing groups nor create new
groups, hence you
>can't seem to individually specify "whatever" for each
user.
>
>I'm not impressed, seems like a great deal of effort for
what appears to be
>"lump summing" everyone into specific "buckets". Am I
not seeing things as
>they are or ... ?
>
>For example, it appears there's no way to restrict the
Guest account from
>being able to basically browse anywhere on any hard disk
etc. To my mind, I
>should be able to dictate that as far as any user is
concerned their "My
>Documents" is the root of the drive (e.g. "drive":\) and
I can specify what
>if any other additional drives that user can even "see".
This restriction
>should be enforced even with Open dialogs and whatever
other various means.
>
>---------------------------------------
>
>Another query.
>
>Can the Guest account normally use the dialup account
the administrator has
>setup and specified "allow others to use"? The "user"
accounts have no
>problem, dialer starts (can't change password etc.),
connects etc. but the
>Guest account gets the standard "can't find ..." error.
If so, how please? I
>ended up having the luck and quessing about a "policy"
(God help me if I
>have to find it again) where I could enter an ip address
for one of the
>other pc's on my ethernet which acts as a proxy server
for the other 3 pc's.
>That allowed the Guest account to at least use the proxy
server to connect.
>Until that "policy" change, it wouldn't use the proxy
settings under the
>Connections/Lan dialog even though it'd let me edit them
etc. (unlike the
>dialup connection part where I see and can do nothing).
>
>
>
>.
>
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