Re: Network sharing of confidential files

From: Nan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:07:46 -0800

-- All computers are NTFS
-- The only accounts in my local admin group are on my
personal hard drive. That's the problem.
-- I tried adding a network resource (my boss' computer)
to my admin group, but was given an invalid name response.
-- I am in a workgroup environment. Do I have to switch
to a simple domain environment to achieve specific-user-
only file access?

Nan

>-----Original Message-----
>I presume you mean every *user*, not every *computer*,
has their own login?
>In my opinion, everyone needs a password, as a matter of
course.
>I'd take the other accounts out of the local admin group
on your computer.
>Are you using NTFS already? If so, you should be able to
control security by
>looking at the properties of the folders in question -
the security tab is
>where you want to start.
>
>Nan wrote:
>> Every computer has its own user name: Nan, Marty,
Cheryl,
>> etc; all are set up as Computer Administrator accounts.
>> All computers are only used by one person. Most of the
>> user accounts are not passworded, but mine and the
boss'
>> are passworded.
>>
>> So what do I do now?
>> And thank you in advance.
>>
>> Nan
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> How are you set up now? Is everyone using the same
login name and
>>> password on their own computers, or are they all
using different
>>> ones (with all accounts & passwords created
identically on all
>>> computers)? If the latter, this is pretty easy if you
use NTFS - you
>>> can set the security on your files/folders for the
confidential data
>>> such that it isn't accessible to anybody's but yours
and the boss'
>>> account.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nan wrote:
>>>> With Windows XP Pro in a peer-to-peer workgroup (not
>>>> domain) network, how do I grant file sharing only to
>>>> specific network users? I need to allow the boss to
view
>>>> and edit my confidential files, but they are nobody
>>>> else's business.
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>
>
>.
>

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