RE: XP Home sharing and security

From: M. Rajesh (mrajesh24_ns_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 04:01:01 -0700

Hi,

In the box where you remove the "Everyone" add the administrator and the
concerned user to whom you want to grant access and then remove "Everyone"

This will give access only to that users as well as administrators.

Regards
M. Rajesh
.Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com

"adl" wrote:

> I'm trying to help a friend who has a set of XP Pro
> systems in a domain with a Win2003 SBS Server. This
> domain (companyname.net) and the PCs in it happen to be on
> the same LAN in their office as his wife's business, which
> only has 2 PCs, both running XP Home (no domain, just the
> workgroup "office"). They need to share a folder between
> the 2 PCs running XP Home, but they want to make sure the
> share can not be accessed from the other systems that are
> part of the companyname.net domain. I know you can boot
> the XP Home system in Safe Mode, and gain access to the
> full security settings. The problem is, I don't know what
> to add or change to make sure only the 2 systems in the XP
> Home Workgroup can see the shares, and deny access to the
> systems in the companyname.net domain. If I
> remove "everyone", it denies access to the domain PCs, but
> also denies access to the other XP Home PC. Suggestions?
>

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